11-letter words containing y, o, l, a
- way of life — lifestyle
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- william joy — (person) (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
- woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
- xanthophyll — lutein (def 1).
- xylographed — Simple past tense and past participle of xylograph.
- xylographer — A person who makes xylographs.
- xylographic — Of or pertaining to xylographs.
- xylophagous — Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.).
- yard of ale — a trumpet-shaped glass about 3 feet (1 meter) long with a bulb at the closed end, for serving ale or beer.
- yard-of-ale — a trumpet-shaped glass about 3 feet (1 meter) long with a bulb at the closed end, for serving ale or beer.
- yellow cake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellow card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
- yellow flag — Nautical. quarantine flag.
- yellow hats — the sect of Tibetan Buddhist monks established after religious reforms in the 14th century.
- yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
- yellow race — the Mongoloid group of mankind
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
- yellow-card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
- yellowheads — Plural form of yellowhead.
- yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.
- yorba linda — a city in SW California.
- yoshkar-ola — a city in and the capital of the Mari Autonomous Republic, in the Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Kazan.
- young adult — a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).
- young italy — a political society in Italy advocating the unification of Italy, founded by Mazzini in 1831 to replace the Carbonari.
- your actual — (intensifier)
- 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.
- 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)
- zygodactyls — Plural form of zygodactyl.
- zygodactyly — (anatomy) The condition of having two toes facing forward and two backward, as in some birds and chameleons.
- zygopleural — possessing symmetry on both sides
- zygotically — By means of, or in terms of, zygosis.