14-letter words starting with y
- yagi (antenna) — a VHF or UHF directional antenna array in which a basic dipole antenna is supplemented by several parallel reflector and director elements: used when television reception is weak
- yang chen ning — born 1922, Chinese physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1957.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
- year and a day — a period fixed by law to ensure the completion of a full year. It is applied for certain purposes, such as to determine the time within which wrecks must be claimed
- yearly meeting — any of several associations of local Quaker congregations.
- yeddo hawthorn — a Japanese shrub, Raphiolepis umbellata, of the rose family, having leathery leaves and dense, hairy clusters of fragrant white flowers.
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
- yellow emperor — the legendary first emperor of China.
- yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
- yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
- yellow newtown — a variety of yellow apple that ripens in the autumn.
- yellow puccoon — a plant, Lithospermum incisum, of central and western North America, having numerous branches and fringed yellow flowers.
- yellow wagtail — Motacilla flava; a small passerine
- yellow warbler — a small American warbler, Dendroica petechia, the male of which has yellow plumage streaked with brown on the underparts.
- yellow yorling — a yellowhammer
- yellow-bellied — having a yellow abdomen or underside.
- yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.
- yenisei ostyak — Ket.
- yeoman service — excellent service
- yesterday week — a week yesterday; a week ago from yesterday
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.
- yoda condition — (programming) The programming practise of using if (constant == variable) e.g. if (4 == foo) instead of the more natural if (variable == constant) It is named after the Star Wars character Yoda who says things like "Strong is Vader". It may have been invented as a way to prevent coding errors like if (count = 5) (accidentally using a single "=" (assignment) instead of a double "==" (comparison)). The above is syntactically valid whereas the Yoda equivalent would give a compile-time error.
- yom kippur war — a war that began on Yom Kippur in 1973 with the attack of Israel by Egypt, Syria, and Iraq: Israel recovered most of its initial losses.
- yorkshire bond — flying bond.
- yosemite falls — a series of falls in Yosemite National Park: upper falls, 1436 feet (438 meters) high; middle falls, 626 feet (190 meters) high; lower falls, 320 feet (98 meters) high. Total height (including rapids), 2526 feet (770 meters).
- you bet (you)! — certainly!
- you can't talk — you yourself are guilty of offending in the very matter you are decrying
- you don't know — You can say 'You don't know' in order to emphasize how strongly you feel about the remark you are going to make.
- you never know — You say 'You never know' or 'One never knows' to indicate that it is not definite or certain what will happen in the future, and to suggest that there is some hope that things will turn out well.
- you're welcome — You say 'You're welcome' to someone who has thanked you for something in order to acknowledge their thanks in a polite way.
- young marrieds — young married people
- young offender — a criminal who, according to the law, is not yet an adult but no longer a child
- your seventies — the ages between 70–79
- youth hosteler — a person who stays at youth hostels during travels.
- youth movement — a political, religious or social movement that is made up of young people
- youth offender — a young delinquent, especially a first offender, usually from 14 to 21 years old, whom the court tries to correct and guide rather than to punish as a criminal.
- yttrium metals — a series of closely related metals including yttrium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and sometimes, terbium, gadolinium, and dysprosium
- yttrocolumbite — Yttrotantalite.
- yttrotantalite — a mineral, tantalite and niobate of yttrium and various elements, as iron, and cerium, occurring in the form of brown-black crystals.
- yuppie disease — any of a number of debilitating long-lasting viral disorders associated with stress, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, whose symptoms include muscle weakness, chronic tiredness, and depression
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