English words from Middle English
- yemeTo keep, to observe, to pay attention.
- yeplyPromptly; quickly; at once.
- -yerAgent suffix, equivalent to -er, appended to some nouns (especially those ending in the letter "w" or "v").
- yerdA yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.
- yerkTo stab (someone or something).
- yerneagerly, heartily, gladly, willingly, earnestly.
- yester-Belonging to the day preceding the present; next before the present.
- yestereveYesterday evening.
- yesterevenSynonym of yestereve.
- yester-morrowYesterday morning.
- yesternightLast night.
- yestreenThe night before; last night.
- yetlingCast iron.
- yeukitch, a prickly feeling
- yewenMade from the wood of the yew tree.
- yexTo hiccup.
- yexingA hiccup.
- yielderSomeone or something that yields a crop or other product.
- yiveTo give.
- ylemIn the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma that made up the matter in the cosmos following the initial baryogenesis at an early stage of its expansion and cooling, from which the first atoms formed and photons decoupled. The emission of photons in this phase is regarded as the source of the cosmic microwave background.
- yoghA letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds.
- yoteTo pour water on; pour in.
- youngheadYounghood, youth.
- younglingYoung; youthful.
- younglyLike a young person or thing; young; youthful.
- young manA term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young boy.
- young moonThe phase of the moon when it is waxing, especially before quarter moon.
- youngthyouth; the quality of being young
- yournYours.
- youthhoodThe state of being young, either in age or in spirit; youth.
- youthnessThe state, quality, or condition of being a youth; adolescence
- yoweA ewe; a female sheep.
- YulemonthThe typical month of the Yuletide; the month in which Yule typically occurs; Christmas month; December.
- yurehair
- zealsA village and civil parish in south-west Wiltshire, England, close to the border with both Dorset and Somerset (OS grid ref ST7831).
- zwodderA dull, drowsy state; stupor