4-letter words containing y, o
- yedo — a former name of Tokyo.
- yeow — Expressing sudden pain or startlement.
- yezo — former name of Hokkaido.
- yoak — Obsolete spelling of yoke.
- yobe — a state of Nigeria, in the NE. Capital: Damaturu. Pop: 2 321 591 (2006). Area: 45 502 sq km (17 568 sq miles)
- yobs — Plural form of yob.
- yock — a loud, hearty laugh.
- yode — Simple past form of go; went.
- yodh — The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- yods — Plural form of yod.
- yoga — a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.
- yogh — the letter used in the writing of Middle English to represent a palatal fricative, as in ung (Modern English young) or a velar fricative, as in litliche (Modern English lightly).
- yogi — a person who practices yoga.
- yoho — to shout “yo-ho!”.
- yoke — 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).
- yoks — a loud, hearty laugh.
- yola — (US, slang, California) cocaine.
- yolk — the yellow and principal substance of an egg, as distinguished from the white.
- yolo — to engage in impulsive or reckless behavior with this sort of rationalization: We’ve been YOLOing all night.
- yomp — (Royal Marines military slang) A long-distance march carrying full kit.
- yond — Yonder.
- yoni — (in Shaktism) the external female genitals regarded as the symbol of Shakti. Compare lingam (def 2).
- yoof — a non-standard spelling of youth, used humorously or facetiously
- yoop — a sob
- yore — Chiefly Literary. time past: knights of yore.
- york — a member of the royal house of England that ruled from 1461 to 1485.
- yorp — to shout
- yosu — a city in S South Korea.
- yote — (UK dialectal) To pour water on; pour in.
- your — to address as “thou.”.
- yous — plural of you.
- yout — Eye dialect of youth.
- yow! — (exclamation) /yow/ (From "Zippy the Pinhead" comics) A favoured hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis. "Yow! Check out what happens when you twiddle the foo option on this display hack!" Compare gurfle.
- yowe — (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.
- yowl — to utter a long, distressful or dismal cry, as an animal or a person; howl.
- yoyo — a spoollike toy consisting of two thick wooden, plastic, or metal disks connected by a dowel pin in the center to which a string is attached, one end being looped around the player's finger so that the toy can be spun out and reeled in by wrist motion.
- yron — Archaic spelling of iron.
- yuko — (judo) The score for a throw that lands the opponent on his or her side.
- zony — The offspring of a male zebra and a female pony.