yea
1: an affirmative; "The yeas have it" [ant: {nay}] adv : not only so, but; "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice" [syn: {yeah}]
yeah
1: not only so, but; "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice" [syn: {yea}]
year
1: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920" [syn: {twelvemonth}, {yr}] 2: a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for s...
year dot
1: as long ago as anyone can remember; "he has been a conductor since the year dot"
year-around
1: operating or continuing throughout the year; "a year-round resort"; "a year-round job" [syn: {year-round}] [ant: {seasonal}]
year-end
1: taking place at the close of a fiscal year; "year-end audit" n : the end of a calendar year; "he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end"
year-round
1: operating or continuing throughout the year; "a year-round resort"; "a year-round job" [syn: {year-around}] [ant: {seasonal}]
yearbook
1: a book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students 2: a reference book that is published regularly once ...
yearling
1: a young child [syn: {toddler}, {tot}, {bambino}] 2: a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth 3: an animal in its second year
yearlong
1: lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses"
yearly
1: occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" [syn: {annual}] adv : without missing a year; "they travel to China annually" ...
yearn
1: desire strongly or persistently [syn: {hanker}, {long}] 2: have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: {ache}, {yen}, {p...
yearned-for
1: greatly desired [syn: {longed-for}, {wished-for}]
yearner
1: a person with a strong desire for something; "a longer for money"; "a thirster after blood"; "a yearner for knowledge" [syn: {longer}, {thirster}]
yearning
1: full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds" [syn: {wistful}] n : prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: {longing}]
yearningly
1: in a yearning manner; "he spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'" [syn: {longingly}, {with longing}]
years
1: a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" [syn: {old age}, {age}, {eld...
yeast
1: a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey [syn: {barm}] 2: any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce as...
yeast cake
1: small cake of compressed moist yeast
yeasty
1: marked by spirited enjoyment [syn: {zestful}, {zesty}, {barmy}] 2: exuberantly creative [also: {yeastiest}, {yeastier}]
Yeats
1: Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939) [syn: {William Butler Yeats}, {W. B. Yeats}]
Yeatsian
1: in the manner of William Butler Yeats
Yeddo
1: the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan [syn: {Tokyo}, {Tokio}, {Yedo}, {Edo}, {Japanese capital}, {capital of Japan}]
Yedo
1: the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan [syn: {Tokyo}, {Tokio}, {Yeddo}, {Edo}, {Japanese capital}, {capital of Japan}]
Yehudi Menuhin
1: British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (1916-1999) [syn: {Menuhin}, {Sir Yehudi Menuhin}]
Yekaterinoslav
1: city in east central Ukraine on the Dnieper River; center of metallurgical industry [syn: {Dnipropetrovsk}]
yell
1: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: {cry}, {outcry}, {call}, {shout}, {vociferation}] 2: a loud utteran...
yelled
1: in a vehement outcry; "his shouted words of encouragement could be heard over the crowd noises" [syn: {shouted}]
yeller
1: someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice [syn: {roarer}, {bawler}, {bellower}, {screamer}, {screecher}, {shouter}]
yelling
1: noisy with or as if with loud cries and shouts; "a crying mass of rioters"; "a howling wind"; "shouting fans"; "the yelling fiend" [syn: {crying}, {howling}, {shouting}] n : uttering a loud inartic...
yellow
1: similar to the color of an egg yolk [syn: {yellowish}, {xanthous}] 2: easily frightened [syn: {chicken}, {chickenhearted}, {lily-livered}, {white-livered}, {yellow-bellied}] 3: changed to a yellowi...
yellow adder's tongue
1: eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors [syn: {trout lily}, {amberbell}, {Erythronium americanum}]
yellow ageratum
1: shrub of southwestern Mediterranean region having yellow daisylike flowers [syn: {African daisy}, {Lonas inodora}, {Lonas annua}]
yellow asphodel
1: asphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers [syn: {king's spear}, {Asphodeline lutea}]
yellow avens
1: hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America [syn: {Geum macrophyllum}] 2: erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America [syn: {Geum alleppicum strictu...
yellow bachelor's button
1: bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers [syn: {orange milkwort}, {yellow milkwort}, {candyweed}, {Polygala lutea}]
yellow bass
1: North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass [syn: {Morone interrupta}]
yellow bean
1: snap beans with yellow pods [syn: {wax bean}]
yellow bedstraw
1: common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia [syn: {yellow cleavers}, {Our Lady's bedstraw}, {Galium verum}]
yellow bells
1: viscid herb of arid or desert habitats of southwestern United States having pendulous yellow flowers [syn: {California yellow bells}, {whispering bells}, {Emmanthe penduliflora}]
yellow berry
1: fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments [syn: {buckthorn berry}]
yellow bile
1: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger [syn: {choler}]
yellow birch
1: tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or gray bark [syn: {Betula alleghaniensis}, {Betula leutea}]
yellow bone marrow
1: bone marrow that is yellow with fat; found at the ends of long bones in adults [syn: {yellow marrow}]
yellow bristle grass
1: common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas [syn: {yellow bristlegrass}, {yellow foxtail}, {glaucous bristlegrass}, {Setaria glauca}]
yellow bristlegrass
1: common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas [syn: {yellow bristle grass}, {yellow foxtail}, {glaucous bristlegrass}, {Setaria glauca}]
yellow bugle
1: low-growing annual with yellow flowers dotted red; faintly aromatic of pine resin; Europe, British Isles and North Africa [syn: {ground pine}, {Ajuga chamaepitys}]
yellow bunting
1: European bunting the male being bright yellow [syn: {yellowhammer}, {Emberiza citrinella}]
yellow cattley guava
1: small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit [syn: {guava}, {strawberry guava}, {Psidium littorale}]
yellow cedar
1: tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament [syn: {yellow cypress}, {Nootka cypress}, {Alaska cedar}, {Chamaecyparis nootkatensis}]
yellow chamomile
1: Eurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in North America [syn: {golden marguerite}, {dyers' chamomile}, {Anthemis tinctoria}]
yellow chestnut oak
1: medium-sized deciduous tree of the eastern United States that yields a strong durable wood [syn: {chinquapin oak}, {chinkapin oak}, {Quercus muehlenbergii}]
yellow cleavers
1: common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia [syn: {yellow bedstraw}, {Our Lady's bedstraw}, {Galium verum}]
yellow clintonia
1: common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits [syn: {heal all}, {Clintonia borealis}]
yellow colicroot
1: colicroot with yellow-bracted racemose flowers; smaller than Aletris farinosa; southeastern United States [syn: {Aletris aurea}]
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yellow cypress
1: tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament [syn: {yellow cedar}, {Nootka cypress}, {Alaska cedar}, {Chamaecyparis nootkatensis}]
Yellow Delicious
1: a sweet eating apple with yellow skin [syn: {Golden Delicious}]
yellow dock
1: European dock with broad obtuse leaves and bitter rootstock common as a weed in North America [syn: {bitter dock}, {broad-leaved dock}, {Rumex obtusifolius}]
yellow dwarf
1: any of several virus diseases of plants characterized by stunting and yellowing of the leaves
yellow fever
1: caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito [syn: {yellow jack}, {black vomit}]
yellow flag
1: common yellow-flowered iris of Europe and North Africa, naturalized in United States and often cultivated [syn: {yellow iris}, {yellow water flag}, {Iris pseudacorus}]
yellow foxglove
1: European yellow-flowered foxglove [syn: {straw foxglove}, {Digitalis lutea}]
yellow foxtail
1: common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas [syn: {yellow bristlegrass}, {yellow bristle grass}, {glaucous bristlegrass}, {Setaria glauca}]
yellow giant hyssop
1: erect perennial with stout stems and yellow-green flowers; southern Canada and southeastern United States [syn: {Agastache nepetoides}]
yellow globe lily
1: globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California [syn: {golden fairy lantern}, {Calochortus amabilis}]
yellow goatfish
1: schooling goatfish; grayish with yellow stripe [syn: {Mulloidichthys martinicus}]
yellow granadilla
1: West Indian passionflower; cultivated for its yellow edible fruit [syn: {Jamaica honeysuckle}, {Passiflora laurifolia}] 2: the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle [syn: {bell apple}, {sw...
yellow green
1: a shade of green tinged with yellow [syn: {yellowish green}, {chartreuse}, {Paris green}, {pea green}]
yellow gurnard
1: a kind of gurnard [syn: {tub gurnard}, {Trigla lucerna}]
yellow hawkweed
1: European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States; locally troublesome weeds [syn: {king devil}, {Hieracium praealtum}]
yellow henbane
1: found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries [syn: {Physalis viscosa}]
yellow honeysuckle
1: climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow (later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States [syn: {Lonicera flava}] 2: twining deciduous shrub with clusters of purple-tinged...
yellow horned poppy
1: yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America [syn: {horn poppy}, {horned poppy}, {sea poppy}, {Glaucium flavum}]
yellow hornet
1: small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground [syn: {yellow jacket}, {Vespula maculifrons}]
yellow iris
1: common yellow-flowered iris of Europe and North Africa, naturalized in United States and often cultivated [syn: {yellow flag}, {yellow water flag}, {Iris pseudacorus}]
yellow ironweed
1: perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States [syn: {wingstem}, {golden ironweed}, {golden honey plant}, {Verbesina alternifolia}, {Actinomeris alternifolia}]
yellow jacaranda
1: semi-evergreen South American tree with odd-pinnate leaves and golden yellow flowers cultivated as an ornamental [syn: {tipu}, {tipu tree}, {pride of Bolivia}]
yellow jack
1: caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito [syn: {yellow fever}, {black vomit}] 2: yellow flag hoist on a ship in quarantine 3: fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico [syn: {Caranx barth...
yellow jacket
1: a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and anti-spasmodic [syn: {pentobarbital sodium}, {pentobarbital}, {Nembutal}] 2: small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting...
yellow jasmine
1: poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers [syn: {yellow jessamine}, {Carolina jasmine}, {evening trumpet flower}, {Gelsemium sempervi...
yellow jessamine
1: poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers [syn: {yellow jasmine}, {Carolina jasmine}, {evening trumpet flower}, {Gelsemium sempervire...
yellow lady's slipper
1: maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan [syn: {yellow lady-slipper}, {Cypripedium calceolus}, {Cypripedium parviflorum}]
yellow lady-slipper
1: maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip; Europe, North America and Japan [syn: {yellow lady's slipper}, {Cypripedium calceolus}, {Cypripedium parviflorum}]
yellow locust
1: large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions [syn: {black...
yellow loosestrife
1: frequently considered a weed; Europe and Asia [syn: {garden loosestrife}, {Lysimachia vulgaris}]
yellow lupine
1: yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated for forage [syn: {Lupinus luteus}]
yellow mariposa tulip
1: mariposa having clusters of a few large deep yellow bell-shaped flowers atop slender stems; California coastal ranges [syn: {Calochortus luteus}]
yellow marrow
1: bone marrow that is yellow with fat; found at the ends of long bones in adults [syn: {yellow bone marrow}]
yellow metal
1: a brass that has more zinc and is stronger than alpha brass; used in making castings and hot-worked products [syn: {alpha-beta brass}, {Muntz metal}]
yellow milkwort
1: bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers [syn: {orange milkwort}, {candyweed}, {yellow bachelor's button}, {Polygala lutea}]
yellow mombin
1: tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit [syn: {hog plum}, {yellow mombin tree}, {Spondias mombin}] 2: yellow oval tropical fruit [syn: {hog plum}]
yellow mombin tree
1: tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit [syn: {hog plum}, {yellow mombin}, {Spondias mombin}]
yellow mountain saxifrage
1: tufted evergreen perennial having ciliate leaves and yellow corymbose flowers often spotted orange [syn: {Saxifraga aizoides}]
yellow nutgrass
1: European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers [syn: {chufa}, {earth almond}, {ground almond}, {rush nut}, {Cyperus esculentus}]
yellow oak
1: medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad 5-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped [sy...
yellow ocher
1: pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica [syn: {yellow ochre}]
yellow ochre
1: pigment consisting of a limonite mixed with clay and silica [syn: {yellow ocher}]
yellow oleander
1: tropical American shrub or small tree having glossy dark green leaves and fragrant saffron yellow to orange or peach- colored flowers; all parts highly poisonous [syn: {Thevetia peruviana}, {Thevet...
yellow pages
1: a telephone directory or section of a directory (usually printed on yellow paper) where business products and services are listed alphabetically by field along with classified advertising
yellow paper daisy
1: Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the choice everlasting of dried-flower lovers [syn: {strawflower}, {golden everlasting}, {Helichrysum bracteatum}]
yellow parilla
1: a woody vine of eastern North America having large oval leaves and small white flowers and purple to blue-black fruits [syn: {common moonseed}, {Canada moonseed}, {Menispermum canadense}]
yellow pea
1: western United States bushy herb having yellow pealike flowers [syn: {false lupine}, {golden pea}, {Thermopsis macrophylla}]
yellow perch
1: North American perch [syn: {Perca flavescens}]
yellow peril
1: the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples
yellow pimpernel
1: trailing European evergreen with yellow flowers [syn: {Lysimachia nemorum}]
yellow pine
1: any of various pines having yellow wood 2: hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine
yellow pitcher plant
1: pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect wide-mouth yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with erect lids [syn: {huntsman's horn}, {huntsman's horns}, {yellow trumpet}, {trumpets}, {Sarrac...
yellow pond lily
1: common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water [syn: {spatterdock}, {cow lily}, {Nuphar ad...
yellow poplar
1: light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer [syn: {tulipwood}, {true tulipwood}, {whitewood}, {white poplar}] 2: tall North American deciduous timber tree having large t...
yellow prussiate of potash
1: a cyanide comound that is prepared by the reaction of potassium cyanide with ferrous salts; commonly used by gardeners [syn: {potassium ferrocyanide}]
Yellow race
1: an Asian race [syn: {Mongoloid race}, {Mongolian race}]
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