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11-letter words starting with y

  • y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits
  • yacht chair — a folding armchair consisting of a wooden frame across which are stretched strips of canvas to form the seat and back.
  • yachtswoman — a woman who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
  • yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
  • yackety-yak — noisy, continuous, and trivial talk or conversation
  • yagi aerial — a highly directional aerial, used esp in television and radio astronomy, consisting of three or more elements lying parallel to each other, the principal direction of radiation being along the line of the centres
  • yakuza boss — a criminal who is a boss in the Yakuza
  • yankee bond — a bond issued by a foreign corporation or country designed for sale in the U.S.
  • yarboroughs — Plural form of yarborough.
  • 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.
  • yardmasters — Plural form of yardmaster.
  • yarra river — a river in SE Australia, rising in the Great Dividing Range and flowing west and southwest through Melbourne to Port Phillip Bay. Length: 250 km (155 miles)
  • yastrzemskiCarl Michael ("Yaz") born 1939, U.S. baseball player.
  • yatteringly — in a yattering manner
  • yawl-rigged — rigged in the manner of a yawl.
  • ye jianying — 1898–1986, Chinese marshal and Communist leader: defense minister 1971–78.
  • year's mind — a Requiem Mass said one year after a person's death or burial.
  • year-around — year-round.
  • yellow bile — one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing anger; choler.
  • yellow book — 1.   (publication)   Yellow Book, Jargon. 2. Yellow Book CD-ROM.
  • 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 line — A yellow line is a narrow yellow line painted at the edge of a road to warn drivers that parking is not allowed there, or is only allowed at certain times.
  • yellow pine — any of several North American pines yielding a strong, yellowish wood.
  • 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 rust — stripe rust.
  • yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
  • yellow spot — Ophthalmology. macula (def 2b).
  • yellow-card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
  • yellowbelly — Slang. a person who is without courage, fortitude, or nerve; coward.
  • yellowcress — Rorippa palustris, a flowering plant in the mustard family.
  • yellowfinch — any of several tropical American finches of the genus Sicalis, most of which are bright yellow in color.
  • yellowheads — Plural form of yellowhead.
  • 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.
  • yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.
  • 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
  • yeşil irmak — a river in N Turkey, flowing northwest to the Black Sea. Length: 418 km (260 miles)
  • yesternight — last night.
  • yesteryears — Plural form of yesteryear.
  • 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.
  • yiddishkeit — Jewish tradition, culture, character, or heritage.

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