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}]
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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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