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yesterday

adverb · on the day preceding today

Example: yesterday the weather was beautiful

yet

adverb · to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons

Example: looked sick and felt even worse

ygdrasil

noun · (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and Heaven and Hell together

yib

noun · a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes

yid

noun · (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Jew

yielding

adjective · tending to give in or surrender or agree- V.I.Parrington

Example: too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments

yieldingly

adverb · in an obedient manner

Example: obediently she slipped off her right shoe and stocking

yips

noun · nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail (especially causes golfers to miss short putts)

Example: to avoid the yips he changed his style of putting

yisrael

noun · Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine

yoghourt

noun · a custard-like food made from curdled milk

yogic

adjective · of or relating to yoga

Example: yogic exercises

yogistic

adjective · of or relating to yoga

Example: yogic exercises

yokel-like

adjective · stupid and ignorant like proverbial rural inhabitants

Example: the boy's empty yokel-like expression

yokelish

adjective · (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

yolk

noun · nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)

yom kippur war

noun · Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt

yon

adjective · distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)

Example: yonder valley

yonder

adjective · distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)

Example: yonder valley

yosemite

noun · a series of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park in California; is reduced to a trickle for part of each year

you bet

adverb · an expression of emphatic agreement

you said it

adverb · an expression of emphatic agreement

young

adjective · (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

Example: new potatoes

young buck

noun · a teenager or a young adult male

young-bearing

adjective · capable of producing eggs and bearing offspring

younger

adjective · used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father

Example: John Junior

youth

noun · the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

youth hostel

noun · inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)

youth-on-age

noun · vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk

youthful

adjective · suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

Example: he is young for his age

youthfully

adverb · in a youthful manner

Example: he is still youthfully enthusiastic

youthfulness

noun · the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person

ypres

noun · battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others

ytterbite

noun · a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium

yuan dynasty

noun · the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368

yucca baccata

noun · tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers

yucca elata

noun · tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States

yucca glauca

noun · yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers

yucca whipplei

noun · yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers

yucky

adjective · highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

Example: a disgusting smell

yugoslav

adjective · of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages

Example: Yugoslavian wine

yugoslavia

noun · a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980

Example: Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro

yugoslavian

adjective · of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages

Example: Yugoslavian wine

yukon time

noun · standard time in the 9th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 135th meridian west; used in Hawaii and most of Alaska

yummy

adjective · extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

z

noun · the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet

Example: the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee

zaar

noun · a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria

zaftig

adjective · (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous - Robt.A.Hamilton;

Example: a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular

zaharias

noun · outstanding United States athlete (1914-1956)

zaire river

noun · a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic

zairean

adjective · of or relating to or characteristic of Zaire or its people

Example: Zairean elections

zairese

adjective · of or relating to or characteristic of Zaire or its people

Example: Zairean elections

zalcitabine

noun · an antiviral drug used to combat HIV infection

zamang

noun · large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle

zambezi

noun · an African river; flows into the Indian Ocean