5 Letter Words That Start With Y

yield

Verb : to give

Verb : (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

Verb : To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

yonce

Noun : A surname.

youth

Noun : (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

Noun : (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.

Noun : (countable) A young person.

young

Adjective : In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.

Adjective : At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.

Adjective : (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.

yahoo

Noun : (derogatory) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person

Noun : (cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.

Verb : To give a cry of "yahoo".

yacht

Noun : A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.

Noun : Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.

Verb : (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.

yearn

Verb : (intransitive, also figuratively) To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.

Verb : (specifically) To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.

Verb : (intransitive) Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.

yeast

Noun : An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

Noun : A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

Noun : A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.

years

Noun : (colloquial, hyperbolic) A very long time.

yummy

Adjective : (colloquial, lighthearted, often childish) Delicious.

Noun : (slang) Ellipsis of yummy mummy. [(chiefly UK, Australia, slang) A mother who is sexually attractive.]

yikes

Verb : To utter the exclamation yikes.

yenta

Noun : A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.

yucca

Noun : 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.

Noun : (now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).

Noun : An unincorporated community in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

yours

Adjective : a possessive form of the pronoun yo

youse

Noun : A surname from German.

yokel

Noun : (derogatory) A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive.

yemen

Noun : A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Yemen. Capital: Sanaa.

Noun : (historical) A region in the southern Arabian Peninsula; the Arabia Felix.

ypres

Noun : A city in West Flanders, Belgium

Noun : The municipality containing this city.

Noun : Any of several battles fought near this city during the First World War.

yucky

Adjective : (colloquial, often childish) Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.

yupon

Noun : (now uncommon) Alternative form of yaupon [The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the south-eastern United States.]

yodel

Verb : (transitive and intransitive) To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.

Noun : An act of yodelling.

Noun : A song incorporating yodelling.

yappy

Adjective : Of a dog, yapping in an annoying manner.

Adjective : Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.

yancy

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname

yo-yo

Noun : A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.

Noun : (finance) A volatile market that moves up and down.

Noun : (informal) Someone who vacillates.

yukon

Noun : A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Whitehorse.

Noun : A city and town in Oklahoma.

Noun : A river in British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska, which gives its name to the territory.

yalie

Noun : (informal) A student at Yale University; a Yale University graduate.

yards

Noun : (nautical) The totality of the sailing rig.

yentl

Noun : Alternative spelling of yenta [A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.]

yowie

Noun : (Australian Aboriginal mythology) A kind of primordial living entity created by Yhi and Bunjil from Baiame's body.

Noun : (Australia, cryptozoology) An ape-like monster or animal said to exist in parts of eastern Australia.

yeats

Noun : A surname.

Noun : The author and poet W. B. Yeats

yanni

Noun : A surname.

yalta

Noun : A city and raion of Crimea, Ukraine

Noun : (by ellipsis) The Yalta Conference of 1945.

yobbo

Noun : (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang) A yob.

yoder

Noun : A surname from German.

Noun : Any of the places in the U.S. named after people with the family name Yoder.

yazoo

Noun : (US) A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).

Noun : A tribe of the Native American Tunica people historically located along the lower course of the Yazoo River.

Noun : The Yazoo River, a river in Mississippi, United States.

yamen

Noun : A residence of an official of the Chinese Empire.

yoked

Adjective : Wearing a yoke.

Adjective : (bodybuilding) Having large and well-defined muscles particularly at the neck and the trapezii (forming thus the “yoke“).

Adjective : (slang) Married.

yeven

yerba

Noun : Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage maté.

youze

yogic

Adjective : Of or pertaining to yoga.

youre

yatch

Noun : (chiefly African-American Vernacular) Clipping of biatch.

Noun : Misspelling of yacht. [A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.]

yourn

yager

Noun : (US, obsolete) A heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle

Noun : A Jäger, an elite soldier of the Austrian army

Noun : A surname.

yakut

Noun : One of a Siberian people who speak a Turkic language, and live in the Lena river basin.

Noun : The language of these people.

yapok

Noun : The water opossum (Chironectes minimus).

yonic

Adjective : In the shape of a vulva or yoni.

Adjective : Of or relating to the yoni.

yarke

Noun : The saki, Pithecia leucocephala

yerst

yokes

Noun : Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Noun : A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.

Noun : Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

yount

Noun : A surname.

yfere

Verb : (obsolete, poetic) Together.

yeses

Noun : An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.

Noun : A vote of support or in favor/favour of something.

Verb : (colloquial, transitive) To agree with, affirm, approve.

yaqui

Noun : A Uto-Aztecan-speaking indigenous people of Mexico.

Noun : A Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Yaqui people.

yetis

Noun : (cryptozoology) An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.

ydrad

ysame

yates

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

Noun : A township in McLean County, Illinois.

yotta

yabby

Noun : (Australia) Any of various freshwater crayfish, typically of the genus Cherax, valued as food, especially Cherax destructor of southeastern Australia.

Noun : (Australia, chiefly Queensland) A species of marine ghost shrimp, Trypaea australiensis, widely harvested by recreational anglers as bait; a nipper.

Verb : (intransitive) To search, forage, or fish for yabbies.

youll

yacca

Noun : Either of two large evergreens of the West Indies, Podocarpus coriaceus and Podocarpus purdicanus.

Noun : (Australia) Any of the various Australian perennial flowering plants of the genus Xanthorrhoea.

yuman

Adjective : Of or relating to a language family spoken by Native Americans in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

yonne

Noun : One of the départements of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Auxerre.

Noun : A river in France, see w:Yonne River

yecch

Noun : Alternative spelling of yech [(chiefly US) An exclamation of disgust.]

yodle

Verb : Archaic form of yodel. [(transitive and intransitive) To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.]

Noun : Archaic form of yodel. [An act of yodelling.]

yuppy

Noun : Alternative spelling of yuppie [(informal, sometimes derogatory) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.]

yerne

yahwe

Noun : Alternative form of Yahweh [(history of religion) The name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity.]

yuchi

Noun : Any of a Native American tribe from the eastern Tennessee River valley, nowadays found mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.

Noun : The language isolate spoken by this tribe.

yamma

Noun : Obsolete spelling of llama [A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.]

yammy

Noun : (informal) A product manufactured by Yamaha Corporation, such as a piano, guitar or motorcycle.

yanks

Noun : a 1979 drama film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn and Tony Melody.

yonks

Noun : (slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand) A long time (especially a longer time than expected); ages

yesca

yarns

Noun : (uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.

Noun : (nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.

Noun : (countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.

yulan

Noun : Magnolia denudata, a species of magnolia with large white blossoms that open before the leaves.

yasin

yeggs

Noun : (cant, slang) A person who breaks open safes; a burglar.

Verb : (slang) To rob.

yakka

Noun : (Australia) Work.

Verb : (Australia) To work.

yechy

Adjective : (informal) Highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.

yawed

Noun : The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.

Noun : The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.

Noun : (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.

yampy

Noun : A vegetable, the Indian white yam.

Adjective : (West Midlands) Barmy; mad; daft.

Noun : (West Midlands) A foolish person.

yolks

Noun : The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.

Noun : The grease in a sheep's fleece; lanolin.

yakow

Noun : An animal that is a hybrid of yak and cow (domestic cattle).

yunca

yogin

Noun : Alternative spelling of yogi [(yoga) A devotee or adherent of yoga.]

yatta

ysaye

yapon

Noun : (now less common than "yaupon") Alternative form of yaupon [The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the south-eastern United States.]

yokum

Noun : A surname.

ylike

Verb : (obsolete) Alternative form of alike [In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.]

yadda

Noun : One of a set of items which do not need to be specified; often used in conjunction with the catch phrase yadda yadda yadda.

yayoi

Noun : (historical) An ethnic group of the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BCE–300 CE).

Noun : A Japanese female given name from Japanese

yosef

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

yauld

Adjective : (Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) Vigorous; strong; healthy.

Adjective : (Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) Active; sprightly; alert.

Adjective : (Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) Supple; active; athletic; nimble.

yogis

Noun : (yoga) A devotee or adherent of yoga.

Verb : (transitive, informal) To turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga.

Verb : (US, thru-hiker slang) To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging.

yakin

Noun : A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor

ylang

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