12-letter words containing y, n
- verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- villainously — having a cruel, wicked, malicious nature or character.
- vindictively — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- vinyasa yoga — a style of yoga in which breathing exercises are used to synchronize fluid transitions through a fixed sequence of poses
- vinylbenzene — styrene.
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.
- vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
- vocationally — of, relating to, or connected with a vocation or occupation: a vocational aptitude.
- volitionally — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- voluminously — forming, filling, or writing a large volume or many volumes: a voluminous edition.
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- waitangi day — the national day of New Zealand (Feb 6), commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government. The treaty provided the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- wave-and-pay — relating to a payment system that uses RFID technology to allow a customer to pay for goods by passing a card in front of a sensor
- weeny-bopper — a child of 8 to 12 years, esp a girl, who is a keen follower of pop music
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whipping boy — a person who is made to bear the blame for another's mistake; scapegoat.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- white bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
- winter-hardy — able to survive the effects of cold weather.
- woburn abbey — a mansion in Woburn in Bedfordshire: originally an abbey; rebuilt in the 17th century for the Dukes of Bedford, altered by Henry Holland in the 18th century; deer park landscaped by Humphrey Repton
- x-ray binary — a binary star that is an intense source of X-rays and is composed of a normal star in close orbit with a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
- xanthene dye — any of a group of dyes having a molecular structure related to that of xanthene in which the aromatic (C 6 H 4) groups are the chromophore.
- xenocurrency — currency circulating or traded in money markets of countries outside its country of issue.
- y connection — a three-phase star connection
- yachting cap — a cap with a round flat top and a visor
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
- yagi antenna — a sharply directional antenna array, consisting of one or two dipoles connected to the transmitting or receiving circuit, and several insulated dipoles all parallel and about equally spaced in a line.
- yalong jiang — a river in central and S China, flowing S to the Yangtze River. 800 miles (1287 km) long.
- year-rounder — a person who is a year-round resident, as at a seasonal resort.
- yellow avens — herb bennet.
- yellow no. 5 — a yellow dye used in food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products: required by FDA regulations to be identified on food labels because of possible allergic reactions in sensitive individuals.
- yellow-green — a color containing both yellow and green.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- yen hsi-shan — 1882–1960, Chinese general.
- yin and yang — (in Chinese philosophy and religion) two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin) and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang) whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things.
- yogic flying — a phenomenon of Transcendental Meditation in which the meditator jumps into the air while in the lotus position
- you can talk — you don't have to worry about doing a particular thing yourself
- you-know-who — a person whose name one does not want to say, but who is known to the person to whom one is speaking
- youghiogheny — a river flowing from NW Maryland through SW Pennsylvania into the Monongahela River. 135 miles (217 km) long.
- young fustic — fustet (def 2).
- youngberries — Plural form of youngberry.
- younger edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
- younger hand — (in piquet and similar card games) the dealer