13-letter words starting with y
- yachting trip — a pleasure trip on a yacht
- yachtsmanship — The ability or art of being adept at sailing a yacht.
- yang shangkun — 1907–98, Chinese Communist leader: president 1988–99.
- yankee doodle — (italics) a song with a melody of apparent British origin, popular with American troops during the Revolutionary War.
- year of grace — a specified year of the Christian era: this year of grace; the year of grace 1982.
- yeast extract — food ingredient obtained from yeast
- yekaterinburg — Ekaterinburg.
- yekaterinodar — a former name of Krasnodar.
- yelizavetgrad — a former name of Kirovograd.
- yellow enzyme — any of several yellow respiratory enzymes that are members of the flavoprotein group, found naturally as in yeast
- yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
- yellow jersey — (in the Tour de France) a yellow jersey worn by the overall leader
- yellow locust — black locust.
- yellow mombin — a tropical American tree, Spondias mombin, having yellowish-white flowers and yellow, oval, edible fruit.
- yellow poplar — tulip tree (def 1).
- yellow ribbon — a yellow-colored ribbon displayed as a symbol of solidarity with soldiers in combat, political hostages, etc.
- yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris
- yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
- yellowhammers — Plural form of yellowhammer.
- yellowishness — The property of having a slight or moderate shade of yellow, usually tinged with other colours.
- yellowthroats — Plural form of yellowthroat.
- yeoman farmer — a man who farmed his own land
- yesterevening — yesterday evening.
- yestermorning — yesterday morning.
- yieldableness — the quality of being submissive or compliant
- yitzhak rabin — Yitzhak [yits-khahk] /yɪtsˈxɑk/ (Show IPA), 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
- yo-yo dieting — a repeated cycle of weight loss followed by weight gain.
- yol computers — (company) A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
- york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.
- yorkshire fog — a common tufted grass, Holcus lanatus, having downy leaves and flower heads that are white or pink and branched, with spikelets carrying the flowers
- you can't win — an expression of resignation after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome difficulties
- you don't say — You can use 'You don't say' to express surprise at what someone has told you. People often use this expression to indicate that in fact they are not surprised.
- you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify
- young ireland — a movement or party of Irish patriots in the 1840s who split with Daniel O'Connell because they favoured a more violent policy than that which he promoted
- young-looking — having the appearance of youth
- your nineties — the ages between 90–99
- yourdon, inc. — (company) The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.
- youth culture — the activities and behaviour associated with young people
- youth custody — (in Britain) a sentence of from four to eighteen months' detention passed on a person aged 15 to 21
- youtube, inc. — (web, video) An on-line video file sharing web site, founded on 2005-02-14 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Anyone can upload video clips to the site and these can then be viewed by others. In 2007, many such sites exist but YouTube is the best known. YouTube is funded by Sequoia Capital. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc.. YouTube has partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, BBC, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, NBA, The Sundance Channel and many more.
- yttrium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth elements, of which the cerium and terbium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- yttrium oxide — a white, water-insoluble powder, Y 2 O 3 , used chiefly in incandescent gas and acetylene mantles.
- yttrotitanite — (mineralogy) A brownish-black variety of titanite.
- yuan shih-kai — 1859–1916, president of China 1912–16.
- yuppification — The act or process of yuppifying.
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