8-letter words starting with y
- y-fronts — Y-fronts are men's or boys' underwear with an opening at the front.
- ya-ta-ta — empty conversation.
- yabbered — Simple past tense and past participle of yabber.
- yachters — Plural form of yachter.
- yachties — Plural form of yachty.
- yachting — a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
- yahooism — The behaviour or attitudes of yahoos; ignorant boorishness.
- yahrzeit — the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse, observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.
- yakimono — (in Japan) grilled, fried, or broiled food, esp meat
- yakitori — a dish of small pieces of boneless chicken, usually marinated, skewered, and grilled.
- yamagata — Prince Aritomo [ah-ree-taw-maw] /ˈɑ riˈtɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1838–1922, Japanese field marshal and statesman.
- yamamoto — Isoroku [ee-saw-raw-koo] /ˈi sɔˈrɔ kʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1943, Japanese naval officer.
- yamasaki — Minoru [mi-nawr-oo,, -nohr-] /mɪˈnɔr u,, -ˈnoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, U.S. architect.
- yamato-e — a narrative style of painting developed from the 12th to the 14th century, characterized chiefly by continuous illustrations often executed on long scrolls.
- yammered — to whine or complain.
- yammerer — One who complains or whines peevishly or whimperingly.
- yang tao — Chinese gooseberry.
- yangquan — a city in E Shanxi province, in NE China.
- yangshao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yangzhou — a city in central Jiangsu province, in E China.
- yankeefy — to cause to acquire Yankee traits or characteristics: She was afraid that a year in a Connecticut college had Yankeefied her speech.
- yanomama — Yanomamo.
- yanomamo — a member of an indigenous people of southern Venezuela and neighboring Brazil who live in scattered villages in the rain forests and conduct warfare against one another continually.
- yardages — Plural form of yardage.
- yardarms — Plural form of yardarm.
- yardbird — a convict or prisoner.
- yardland — virgate2 .
- yardwork — (North America) Work done in maintaining a lawn, and related landscaping activities.
- yarmelke — Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
- yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- yarmulka — Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
- yarmulke — a skullcap worn, especially during prayer and religious study, by Jewish males, especially those adhering to Orthodox or Conservative tradition.
- yarovize — to vernalize.
- yarraman — horse.
- yashmaks — Plural form of yashmak.
- yataghan — a Turkish saber having a doubly curved blade, concave toward the hilt, and a hilt with a prominent pommel and no guard.
- yattered — Simple past tense and past participle of yatter.
- yawmeter — an instrument that measures the yaw of an aircraft.
- yawnsome — dull and boring; tiresome
- ycarried — Past participle of carry.
- yeanling — the young of a sheep or goat; a lamb or kid.
- year end — the end of the financial year
- year-end — year's end; the end of a calendar year.
- yearbook — a book published annually, containing information, statistics, etc., about the past year: an encyclopedia yearbook.
- yeardley — (Sir) George, 1587?–1627, English colonial governor of Virginia 1619–21, 1626–27.
- yearlies — Plural form of yearly.
- yearling — an animal in its second year.
- yearlong — lasting for a year.
- yearneth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yearn.
- yearnful — Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.
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