5 Letter Words That Start With YA

yahoo

Verb : (transitive, intransitive, informal) To give a cry of yahoo.

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

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

yabbo

Noun : Alternative form of yobbo. [(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang) A yob.]

yacht

Noun : (nautical) 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.

yanks

Noun : a 1979 drama film directed by John Schlesinger, and produced by Joseph Janni and Lester Persky, and is written by Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein.

yacca

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

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

yamen

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

yapok

Noun : The water opossum (Chironectes minimus).

yakka

Noun : (Australia) Work.

Verb : (Australia) To work.

Noun : (South Asia, North India, Sikh diaspora, slang, sometimes derogatory) a Sikh living in the Sikh diaspora, especially one from the West

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.]

yaqui

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

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

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.

yappy

Adjective : Very talkative; talking foolishly or at length.

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

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.

Verb : (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.

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

yarns

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

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

Verb : (intransitive) To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.

yawny

Adjective : Boring, uninteresting, causing yawns.

Adjective : Prone to yawning.

Adjective : Sounding like a yawn.

yasos

yaple

Noun : A surname.

yasui

Noun : A surname from Japanese.

yagna

Noun : Alternative form of yajna. [(Hinduism) A ritual of sacrifice to the Devas.]

yance

Verb : (dialect, Northern English dialect) once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly)

yatra

Noun : A Hindu pilgrimage.

yanky

Noun : Archaic form of Yankee. [A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:]

yanos

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

yappa

yabos

Noun : (slang) A woman's breasts.

y axis

yalta

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

Noun : A city and raion of Crimea, Ukraine.

yakut

Noun : The language of these people.

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

yards

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

yazoo

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

Noun : A river in Mississippi, United States; in full, the Yazoo River.

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

yager

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

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

Noun : A surname.

yanan

Adjective : (rare) Of or pertaining to the Yana people of California or their language.

Noun : (rare) Synonym of Yana (“(member of) a particular North American Indian people”).

Noun : (rare) Synonym of Yana (“extinct language of the Yana people”).

yahwe

Noun : Alternative form of Yahweh. [(religion) YHWH, the deity worshiped in Abrahamic religions.]

yakin

Noun : A large Himalayan antelope, Budorcas taxicolor

yates

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A number of places in the United States:

Noun : A township in McLean County, Illinois.

yawns

Verb : (intransitive) To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.

Noun : The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.

Noun : (colloquial) A particularly boring event.

yahve

Noun : Alternative form of Yahweh. [(religion) YHWH, the deity worshiped in Abrahamic religions.]

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.]

yampa

Noun : The Yampa River, a tributary of the Green River in Colorado.

Noun : A town in Routt County, Colorado, United States.

Noun : An unincorporated community in Wapello County, Iowa, United States.

yarke

Noun : The saki, Pithecia leucocephala

yayoi

Noun : A female given name from Japanese.

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

yabba

Noun : A traditional Jamaican handmade ceramic cooking pot.

yacks

Noun : (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete) An oak.

Noun : (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A watch (timepiece).

Verb : Alternative form of yak (“talk; vomit”). [(slang, intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.]

yauco

Noun : A town and municipality in southern Puerto Rico.

yakow

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

yalah

yarak

Noun : (falconry) A super-alert state where the bird is hungry, but not weak, in a trance-like state of alertness and ready to hunt.

yalsa

yancy

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname.

Noun : A surname.

yanni

Noun : A surname.

yaren

Noun : A district, the largest town and de facto capital of Nauru. Nauru has no official capital but Yaren houses the government offices.

yajna

Noun : (Hinduism) A ritual of sacrifice to the Devas.

yalow

yatch

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

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.

yaulp

yawls

Noun : A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen stepped abaft the rudder post.

Noun : A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.

Verb : To cry out; to howl.

yagni

Noun : (software engineering, informal) Acronym of you ain't gonna need it, the principle that software developers should not add functionality to software until it is required.

Noun : Alternative form of YAGNI.

yakov

Noun : (alternative spellings: Jakov or Iakov, ) a Russian or Hebrew variant of the given names Jacob and James.

yassy

Noun : Alternative form of Iași (“city in Romania”).

yasht

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) Any of a collection of hymns and prayers.

yavis

Adjective : (psychotherapy) Initialism of young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, successful: a set of traits in a client said to elicit a positive bias from therapists. [In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.]

yahya

Noun : A male given name from Arabic.

Noun : A surname from Arabic.

yamam

Noun : Israel's national counter-terrorism unit.

yamba

Noun : A town in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia

Noun : A Grassfields language of the northwest region of southern Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Eastern Nigeria.

yamin

Noun : A surname from Arabic.

yanam

Noun : A town in Puducherry, India.

yanez

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

yanko

Noun : A surname.

yasna

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) The principal Zoroastrian act of worship at which those verses are recited.

Noun : (Zoroastrianism) The primary liturgical collection of texts of the Avesta.

yatta

yagis

Noun : Yagi-Uda antenna

Noun : A surname from Japanese.

yales

Noun : A university in the eastern United States.

Noun : A romanisation scheme originating from Yale University.

Noun : A romanisation scheme designed for Mandarin.

yampy

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

Noun : (West Midlands) A foolish person.

Noun : A vegetable, the Indian white yam.

yarra

Noun : A river in southern Victoria, Australia, which flows through Melbourne to Port Phillip.

Noun : A local government area in Melbourne, Victoria; in full, the City of Yarra.

Noun : A locality south-west of Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

yasha

Noun : A diminutive Яша of the Russian/Ukrainian male given name Яков (Jákov)/Яків (Jákiv), equivalent to English Jake

Noun : (computing, Internet) nickname for Yandex (calque, Russian slang)

yawey

Adjective : (archaic, medicine) Alternative form of yawy. [(archaic, medicine) Pertaining to, or afflicted with, the disease yaws.]

yawps

Verb : (intransitive) To talk loudly and coarsely.

Noun : Loud or coarse talk.

Verb : (intransitive) To clamor, to utter loud complaints.

yaffs

Noun : (Yet Another Flash File System) a file system designed and written by Charles Manning for the company Aleph One.

ya'an

Noun : A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

yacob

yadao

Noun : A surname from Ilocano

Noun : A transliteration of a Telugu surname

yadin

yaeko

Noun : A female given name from Japanese.

yahir

Noun : Alternative form of Jair. [A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.]

yalda

Noun : An Iranian festival celebrated on the longest and darkest night of the year (December 20 or 21), when friends and family gather to eat fruits and recite poetry.

yalie

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

yamal

Noun : A large peninsula in northern Russia.

yaman

Noun : Archaic form of Yemen. [A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Yemen. Capital: Sanaa.]

yamas

Noun : The , and their complement, the niyamas, represent a series of "right living" or ethical rules within Yoga philosophy.

Noun : (Yehidat HaMista'arvim) an Israeli Border Police tactical unit.

yambo

yammy

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

yanbu

Noun : A city, a governorate and Red Sea port in Medina province, western Saudi Arabia.

yanda

Noun : A surname from Czech.

yanik

Noun : A surname from Turkish.

yaniv

yarde

Noun : A surname.

yarly

yaron

Noun : a Hebrew name meaning "is full of joy", "will be full of joy", or "to shout, to sing".

yasin

Noun : The Yasin , also known as Yassin, or Al-Yassin, is an anti-tank weapon derived from the RPG-7 produced by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and first deployed in 2004.

Noun : a surname and unisex given name of Arabic origin.

Noun : Yasin Abdullahi Mahamoud, known as Yasin, is a Swedish hip hop artist.

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