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12-letter words starting with ye

  • year by year — If something changes year by year, it changes gradually each year.
  • year-rounder — a person who is a year-round resident, as at a seasonal resort.
  • yellow alert — (in military or civilian defense) the first alert given when enemy aircraft are discovered approaching a military installation, city, coastline, etc. Compare blue alert, red alert, white alert.
  • yellow avens — herb bennet.
  • yellow belly — Slang. a person who is without courage, fortitude, or nerve; coward.
  • yellow birch — a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.
  • yellow cress — any of various species of cress (Rorippa) that are related to watercress and have yellow flowers. They are not confined to water margins and some are garden weeds
  • yellow daisy — the black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta.
  • yellow fever — an acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by an RNA virus transmitted by a mosquito, especially Aedes aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice.
  • yellow light — a yellow traffic light, usually preceding a signal halting traffic in a particular direction.
  • yellow metal — a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc
  • yellow no. 5 — a yellow dye used in food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products: required by FDA regulations to be identified on food labels because of possible allergic reactions in sensitive individuals.
  • yellow ocher — a paint pigment, a variety of limonite, consisting of iron oxide and clay
  • yellow ochre — an earth pigment which is yellowish orange
  • yellow pages — Network Information Service
  • yellow perch — See under perch2 (def 1).
  • yellow peril — (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.
  • yellow river — the second longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai and flowing east, south, and east again to the Gulf of Bohai south of Tianjin; it has changed its course several times in recorded history. Length: about 4350 km (2700 miles)
  • yellow sally — an angler's name for either of two small yellow stoneflies: Isoperla grammatica of chalk streams and Chloroperla torrentium of upland streams
  • yellow-belly — Slang. a person who is without courage, fortitude, or nerve; coward.
  • yellow-green — a color containing both yellow and green.
  • yellowhammer — a common European bunting, Emberiza citrinella, the male of which is marked with bright yellow.
  • yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
  • yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
  • yellowthroat — any of several American warblers of the genus Geothlypis, having a throat that is yellow, especially the common yellowthroat, G. trichas.
  • yen hsi-shan — 1882–1960, Chinese general.

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