Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z youthwear Clothes designed for young people. youthwort Drosera rotundifolia, the round-leaved sundew or common sundew. youthy young youtiao A type of deep-fried dough stick eaten in China and other East and Southeast Asian cuisines. Youtsey A surname from German. YouTube Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself. YouTuber A user of the video-sharing website YouTube. YouTubian Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube. YouTubing The act of creating content as a YouTuber. YouTubular Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube. Youyang A Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing, China. Youyu A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China. Yovanovich A surname. yow Expression of pain; ouch. yowch Synonym of ouch. yowe A ewe; a female sheep. Yowell A surname. yowie An ape-like monster or animal said to exist in parts of eastern Australia. yowl A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl. yowler Someone who or something which yowls. yowley The European yellowhammer. yowling A sound that yowls. yowlingly With yowling sounds. yowly Tending to make yowling sounds. Yown A surname. Yowrie A locality in the Bega Valley council area and the Eurobodalla council area, south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Yowytewa A surname from Hopi. yowzah Wow: an indication of surprise, excitement, or amazement. yowzers A cry of excitement or surprise. Yoxall A village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1419). Yoxford A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3968). yoxter A convict returned from transportation before his time. YoY An ethnic group of Southeast Asia. Yoyetewa A surname from Hopi. yoyo A female given name. Yoyogi A neighborhood of Shibuya, Tokyo prefecture, Japan. Yozgat A province in the Central Anatolia region, Turkey. yperite Synonym of mustard gas. yperitic Relating to yperite, or mustard gas. ypogegrammeni The Greek iota subscript, ͺ or ͅ. yponomeutid Any moth in the family Yponomeutidae. yponomeutoid Any ermine moth of the superfamily Yponomeutoidea Ypres A city in West Flanders, Belgium. Ypresian Of or pertaining to a geological epoch, the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene. Yprois An inhabitant of the city of Ypres; (also, more broadly) an inhabitant of the municipality of the same name. Ypsi The city of Ypsilanti, Michigan. ypsigon The amorphous post-larval stage of the crustacean Hansenocaris, a parasite whose host is unknown. Ypsilanti A city in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States. ypsiliform In the shape of the letter upsilon (Υ (U)). ypsiloid Shaped like the letter Υ. ypsolophid Any moth of the family Ypsolophidae. Yquem Château d'Yquem, a prestigious wine produced in Sauternes. yr A letter of the Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, ᚣ, representing the vowel sounds /y/ and /yː/ in Old English. yrapt Rapt. yrare The state of a nucleus with minimum energy, but excluding the yrast. The second-least excited state for a given angular momentum. yrast The state of a nucleus with minimum energy (i.e. when least excited) for a given angular momentum. Yreka A city, the county seat of Siskiyou County, in northern California, United States. yrn yarn round needle yrneh A reciprocal unit of measurement for electrical inductance. ys A mythical sunken city in Brittany, France. Ysabelle A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Ysabel. Yscir A community (civil parish) west of Brecon, Powys, Wales. Yser A river that flows through French and West Flanders to the North Sea. YSL Yves Saint-Laurent (1936–2008), a French fashion designer. Ystad A town and municipality in Skåne County, southern Sweden. Ystalyfera A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7608). ysterbos Dodonaea thunbergii; Dodonaea angustifolia. Ystrad A village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9895). Ystradgynlais A town and community with a town council in south-west Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SN7810). Ystradowen A village in Penllyn community, Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0177). Ystwyth A river in Ceredigion, Wales Ythan A river in Aberdeenshire council area, north-eastern Scotland, which flows into the North Sea. ythundered Struck by a thunderbolt. ytterbate Any oxyanion of ytterbium; any salt containing such an anion. ytterbia Ytterbium oxide. ytterbian Containing ytterbium. ytterbic Of or pertaining to ytterbium. ytterbite Gadolinite: a black, vitreous mineral consisting primarily of silicates of various rare earths including ytterbium ytterbium A metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 70. ytterbous Containing (usually divalent) ytterbium. Ytterby A village and its former mine on the island of Resarö in Sweden. ytterite gadolinite yttria yttrium oxide yttrialite A rare, highly radioactive yttrium thorium sorosilicate mineral with conchoidal fracture. yttrian Containing yttrium. yttric Of or pertaining to yttrium. yttriferous Containing or producing yttrium. yttrious yttric; of or pertaining to yttrium yttrium A silvery metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39, mainly found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare earth minerals. yttrobetafite A rare radioactive uranium-titanium-niobium mineral characterized by its yttrium content, often found in lunar rocks and rare Earth deposits, that belongs to the pyrochlore group. yttrocerite A violet-blue mineral, a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium. yttrocolumbite Yttrotantalite. yttrocrasite An oxide of (primarily) titanium and yttrium, with small to moderate amounts of thorium, uranium, cerium, and calcium substituting for some of the yttrium and traces of iron, tungsten, columbium, and tantalum substituting for some of the titanium. yttrofluorite A form of fluorite that is rich in yttrium yttrogummite An yttrium-bearing variety of gummite. yttropyrochlore A discredited pyrochlore mineral containing niobium, hydrogen, and oxygen. yttrotantalite A brown or black tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium. yttrotitanite A brownish-black variety of titanite. yttrotungstite A rare mineral consisting of calcium, yttrium, magnesium, aluminium, iron, silicon, hydrogen and tungsten. Ytuarte A surname. ytvA A gene in Bacillus subtilis that codes for a blue light photoreceptor protein (YtvA). yu An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover. yuan The basic unit of money in China. yuanbao Synonym of sycee (“Chinese ingot used as currency”). yuanfuliite An orthorhombic-dipyramidal black mineral containing aluminum, boron, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and titanium. Yuanga A language of New Caledonia Yuanhui A district of Luohe, Henan, China. Yuanjiang A county-level city of Yiyang, Hunan, China, along the Yuan River. yuanjiangite A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal silver white mineral containing gold and tin. Yuanli An urban township in Miaoli County, Taiwan. Yuanlin A county-administered city in Changhua County, Taiwan. Yuanping A county-level city of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China. Yuanqu A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China. Yuanshan A rural township in Yilan County, Taiwan. yuanyang A pair of mandarin ducks, one male and one female, as a symbol of faithful union. Yuanzhou A district of Guyuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China. Yuapin Synonym of Yaruro (“language”). Yuat A dialect of Nyungar, an Australian Aboriginal language, yuba Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk. yubitsume The Japanese ritual of amputating portions of one's own little finger to atone for offense, chiefly among the yakuza. yuca cassava Yucaipa A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Yucatec A member of a Mayan people who inhabit the Yucatán peninsula. Yucatecan A member of the Yucatec people. Yucateco A Yucatecan. yucca Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. yuccaloeside A particular steroid glycoside. yuccie A young, fashionable upper-middle class person, especially one employed in media or creative industries; a materialist hipster. yuccoside A particular steroid glycoside. Yucheng A county of Shangqiu, Henan, China. Yuchi Any of a Native American tribe from the eastern Tennessee River valley, nowadays found mostly in northeastern Oklahoma. Yuchtman A surname. Yuci A district of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China. yuck Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour. yucker A bird, the American flicker or golden-winged woodpecker. yuckety Yucky. yuckily In a yucky way. yuckiness The state or condition of being yucky. yucko Yuck; yucky. yuckster A comedian. yucky Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust. Yucuna An Arawakan language spoken in several communities along the Mirití-Paraná River in Colombia. Yucunicoco A community in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. yudane Synonym of tangzhong. Yuddhonmatta A rakshasa, and brother of Ravana, slain by Nila in the Ramayana, also known as Mahodara. Yudhishthira In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the eldest son of King Pandu and Queen Kunti, who was king of Indraprastha and later of Hastinapura. Yudin A surname from Russian. Yudkowsky A surname. yue An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds. Yuecheng A downtown district in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, corresponding to the former Yue and imperial Chinese city of Kuaiji.