11-letter words containing y, n
- yellowfinch — any of several tropical American finches of the genus Sicalis, most of which are bright yellow in color.
- yellowknife — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- yellowshins — Yellowlegs.
- yellowstone — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through Yellowstone Lake and NE through Montana into the Missouri River in W North Dakota. 671 miles (1080 km) long.
- yerba buena — an island in San Francisco Bay between Oakland and San Francisco, California: a 500 feet (152 meters) two-story tunnel across this island connects the two spans of the San Francisco–Oakland bridge.
- yersiniosis — an infectious disease marked by abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and fever
- yesternight — last night.
- yet another — (jargon) (YA-, after Unix's yacc - Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in "Yet Another AI Group" or "Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm". If used of others' work, it describes something of which there are already far too many. In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands to Yet Another, e.g. YABA, YAUN.
- yevtushenko — Yevgeny Alexandrovich [yiv-gye-nyee uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /yɪvˈgyɛ nyi ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1933, Russian poet.
- yield point — the stress at which an elastic material under increasing stress ceases to behave elastically; under conditions of tensile strength the elongation is no longer proportional to the increase in stress
- ylang-ylang — an aromatic tree, Cananga odorata, of the annona family, native to the Philippines, Java, etc., having fragrant, drooping flowers that yield a volatile oil used in perfumery.
- yoctosecond — one septillionth (10 -24) of a second. Abbreviation: ysec, ys.
- yorba linda — a city in SW California.
- you name it — You say you name it, usually after or before a list, to indicate that you are talking about a very wide range of things.
- young adult — a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).
- young blood — youthful people.
- young fogey — a young or fairly young person who adopts the conservative values of an older generation
- young hyson — a Chinese green tea dried and prepared from twisted leaves, especially of the early crop (young hyson)
- young italy — a political society in Italy advocating the unification of Italy, founded by Mazzini in 1831 to replace the Carbonari.
- young thing — a young person.
- yugoslavian — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.
- yukon river — a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- zanthoxylum — any rutaceous shrub or tree of the genus Zanthoxylum, of temperate and subtropical E Asia and North America: includes the prickly ash and the West Indian yellowwood (or satinwood)
- zephyr yarn — any of various soft, lightweight yarns, often of silk, rayon, or a combination of natural and synthetic fibers, for woven and knit goods.
- zhao ziyang — 1919–2005, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1980–87; general secretary of the Communist Party 1987–89.
- zincography — the art or process of producing a printing surface on a zinc plate, especially of producing one in relief by etching away unprotected parts with acid.
- zone system — a system for envisioning the values to appear in a black-and-white print and for determining exposure and development, based on a scale of shades ranging from 0 (black) to IX (white).
- zoosanitary — Pertaining to the cleanliness of animals or animal products.
- zygogenesis — the formation of a zygote.
- zymogenesis — the conversion of a zymogen into an enzyme