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1: a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park [syn: {Yellowstone}]

1: superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail [syn: {yellowtail snapper}, {Ocyurus chrysurus}] 2: game fish of southern Californ...

1: flesh of American flounder having a yellowish tail 2: American flounder having a yellowish tail [syn: {Limanda ferruginea}]

1: superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail [syn: {yellowtail}, {Ocyurus chrysurus}]

1: small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat

1: yellow-colored wood of any of various yellowwood trees 2: any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract [syn: {yellowwood tree}]

1: any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract [syn: {yellowwood}]

1: a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) [syn: {yelping}] v : bark in a high-pitched tone; "the puppies yelped" [syn: {yip}, {yap}]

1: a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) [syn: {yelp}]

1: a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990 [syn: {Republic of Yemen}]

1: of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants; "Yemeni mountains" n : a native or inhabitant of Yemen

1: 100 Yemeni fils are worth one Yemeni rial [syn: {fils}]

1: monetary unit in Yemen

1: the basic unit of money in Yemen; equal to 100 fils [syn: {rial}]

1: a yearning for something or to do something [syn: {hankering}] 2: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen v : have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a ...

1: a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea [syn: {Yenisei River}, {Yenisey}, {Yenisey River}] 2: the Uralic language sp...

1: a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea [syn: {Yenisei}, {Yenisey}, {Yenisey River}]

1: the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people [syn: {Enets}, {Entsi}, {Entsy}, {Yenisei}, {Yeniseian}]

1: a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia 2: the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people [syn: {Enets}, {Entsi}, {Entsy}, {Yenisei}, {Yenisei-Samoye...

1: a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea [syn: {Yenisei}, {Yenisei River}, {Yenisey River}]

1: a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea [syn: {Yenisei}, {Yenisei River}, {Yenisey}]

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{yen}

1: (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant 2: (Yiddish) a woman gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal

1: officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch [syn: {yeoman of the guard}, {beefeater}] 2: in former times was free and cultivated his own land

1: officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch [syn: {yeoman}, {beefeater}]

1: class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land 2: a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army

1: trailing perennial evergreen herb of northwestern United States with small white flowers; used medicinally [syn: {Micromeria chamissonis}, {Micromeria douglasii}, {Satureja douglasii}]

1: stoloniferous herb of southwestern United States and Mexico having a pungent rootstock and small spicate flowers with white bracts suggesting an anemone [syn: {Anemopsis californica}]

1: viscid evergreen shrub of western United States with white to Deep lilac flowers; the sticky aromatic leaves are used in treating bronchial and pulmonary illnesses [syn: {Eriodictyon californicum}]

1: capital of Armenia [syn: {Jerevan}, {Erivan}, {capital of Armenia}]

1: United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956) [syn: {Robert M. Yerkes}, {Robert Mearns Yerkes}]

1: French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943) [syn: {Alexandre Yersin}, {Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin}]

1: a Bacillus bacteria that causes plague; aerosolized bacteria can be used as a bioweapon

1: a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high)

1: a city in northeastern Nigeria; an agricultural trading center [syn: {Maiduguri}]

1: an affirmative; "I was hoping for a yes" [ant: {no}]

1: a person of unquestioning obedience [syn: {flunky}, {flunkey}, {stooge}]

1: a question that can be answered by yes or no

1: an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) [syn: {yeshivah}] [also: {yeshivoth} (pl), {yeshivahs} (pl)]

1: an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) [syn: {yeshiva}]

{yeshiva}

{yeshiva}

1: the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers" 2: the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays" adv 1: on the day preceding today; ...

1: the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: {past}, {past times}, {yore}] [ant: {future}]

1: up to the present time; "I have yet to see the results"; "details are yet to be worked out" 2: used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the pres...

1: large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas [syn: {abominable snowman}]

1: Russian poet who expressed the feelings of the post-Stalinist generation (born in 1933) [syn: {Yevtushenko}, {Yevgeni Yevtushenko}]

1: Russian poet who expressed the feelings of the post-Stalinist generation (born in 1933) [syn: {Yevtushenko}, {Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko}]

1: Russian poet who expressed the feelings of the post-Stalinist generation (born in 1933) [syn: {Yevgeni Yevtushenko}, {Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko}]

1: wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows 2: any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-sha...

1: sometimes classified as member of order Taxales [syn: {Taxaceae}, {family Taxaceae}]

1: the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; north of Honshu [syn: {Hokkaido}, {Ezo}]

1: (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and heaven and hell together [syn: {Yggdrasil}]

1: (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and heaven and hell together [syn: {Ygdrasil}]

1: a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH [syn: {Yahweh}, {YHWH}, {Yahwe}, {Yahveh}, {Yahve}, {Wahvey}, {Jahvey}, {Jahweh}, {Jehovah}, {JHVH}]

1: a name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH [syn: {Yahweh}, {Yahwe}, {Yahveh}, {YHVH}, {Yahve}, {Wahvey}, {Jahvey}, {Jahweh}, {Jehovah}, {JHVH}]

1: a Loloish language [syn: {Lolo}]

1: a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script

1: production of a certain amount [syn: {output}] 2: an amount of a product [syn: {fruit}] 3: the income arising from land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: {return}, {issue},...