5-letter words starting with y
- y'all — In the Southern United States, people use y'all when addressing a two or more people. Y'all is an informal way of saying 'you all.'
- yaars — Plural form of yaar.
- yabba — a form of methamphetamine
- yabby — a small Australian crayfish, of the genus Cherax, inhabiting streams and water holes.
- yacht — a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
- yacks — Plural form of yack.
- yadda — Used three times in a row, or in combination with other words, to indicate part of a sentence which would be annoying to include, or which is incomprehensible, or which is just unimportant.
- yager — jaeger (defs 2, 3).
- yagis — Plural form of yagi.
- yagni — You aren't gonna need it
- yahoo — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
- yajna — A ritual sacrifice with a specific objective.
- yakin — A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor.
- yakka — work, especially hard work.
- yakky — (informal) chatty, talkative.
- yakow — a hybrid animal, produced by crossbreeding yaks with cows.
- yakut — a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
- yales — Plural form of yale.
- yalow — Rosalyn (Sussman) [roz-uh-lin suhs-muh n] /ˈrɒz ə lɪn ˈsʌs mən/ (Show IPA), 1921–2011, U.S. medical physicist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1977.
- yalta — a seaport in the Crimea, S Ukraine, on the Black Sea: site of wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin February 4–12, 1945.
- yamen — (in the Chinese Empire) the residence or office of a public official.
- yampa — a river in NW Colorado, flowing W into the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- yampy — a foolish person
- yanan — a city in N Shaanxi province, in N central China: the headquarters of Chinese Communists 1937–47.
- yance — (dialect, Northern English dialect) once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly).
- yanks — Plural form of yank.
- yapok — an aquatic Central and South American opossum, Chironectes variegatus (or minimus), having webbed hind feet and a grayish coat.
- yapon — a holly shrub or small tree, Ilex vomitoria, of the southern U.S., having bitter leaves that are sometimes brewed as a tea.
- yappy — to bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishly; yelp.
- yaqui — a member of an American Indian people of Sonora, Mexico.
- yarak — a state of prime fitness in a hawk.
- yarco — a young working-class person who dresses in casual sports clothes
- yards — the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.
- yaren — the capital of the Republic of Nauru.
- yarer — quick; agile; lively.
- yarns — Plural form of yarn.
- yasht — a hymn to a deity.
- yasna — a part of the Avesta including the Gathas and other liturgical texts.
- yasos — Yet Another Scheme Object System
- yassy — Jassy.
- yatch — Misspelling of yacht.
- yates — Plural form of yate.
- yatra — A procession or pilgrimage, especially one with a religious purpose.
- yatzy — A dice game.
- yauco — a city in SW Puerto Rico.
- yauld — active; vigorous.
- yawed — to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
- yawey — of or relating to yaws.
- yawls — (nautical) Plural form of yawl.
- yawns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yawn.
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