6-letter words containing y, n
- yanker — Someone who yanks, or gives a sudden hard pull.
- yankie — a shrewish, nagging, or impudent woman
- yanqui — (in Latin America) Yankee; a citizen of the U.S.
- yantai — a seaport in NE Shandong province, in E China.
- yantra — A geometric diagram, or any object, used as an aid to meditation in tantric worship.
- yaqona — a Polynesian shrub (Piper methysticum) from which an intoxicating drink is made from the roots
- yarned — Simple past tense and past participle of yarn.
- yarner — One who tells yarns or stories.
- yarran — a small hardy tree, Acacia homalophylla, of inland Australia: useful as fodder and for firewood
- yasmin — a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “jasmine.”.
- yaunde — Yaoundé.
- yaupon — a holly shrub or small tree, Ilex vomitoria, of the southern U.S., having bitter leaves that are sometimes brewed as a tea.
- yawing — to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
- yawned — Simple past tense and past participle of yawn.
- yawner — a person who yawns.
- yeadon — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- yeaned — Simple past tense and past participle of yean.
- yearne — Obsolete spelling of yarn.
- yearns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yearn.
- yemeni — a native or inhabitant of Yemen.
- yenned — Simple past tense and past participle of yen.
- yentai — Wade-Giles. Yantai.
- yentas — Plural form of yenta.
- yeoman — a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
- yeomen — a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
- yerned — Simple past tense and past participle of yern.
- yindie — a person in his or her late 20s or early 30s who combines a lucrative career with non-mainstream tastes
- yitten — frightened
- ynambu — a medium-sized S American bird, Rhynchotus rufescens
- yogini — a woman who practices yoga.
- yoking — a device for joining together a pair of draft animals, especially oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal. Compare harness (def 1).
- yonder — being in that place or over there; being that or those over there: That road yonder is the one to take.
- yonker — Obsolete spelling of younker.
- yonnie — a stone
- yonsei — The fourth generation or great-grandchildren of Japanese immigrants, particularly in North America and in Latin America.
- younge — Obsolete spelling of young.
- youngs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of young.
- yunnan — a province in S China. 168,417 sq. mi. (436,200 sq. km). Capital: Kunming.
- yvonne — a female given name.
- zanily — ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.
- zayins — Plural form of zayin.
- zincky — Alternative form of zincy.
- zonary — Zonal.
- zoonym — The common name for a (species of) animal.
- zyrian — the language of the people of the Komi Autonomous Republic, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family; Komi
- zyryan — Komi.