| youngster |
a young person; child. [2 definitions] |
| your |
a possessive form of you; of or belonging to the person or persons being addressed. [2 definitions] |
| you're |
contracted form of "you are." |
| yours |
a possessive form of you; that or those belonging to you. [2 definitions] |
| yourself |
used to emphasize you. [4 definitions] |
| yours truly1 |
words used to end a letter before it is signed; (informal) I, me, or myself. |
| youth |
the quality or state of being young. [5 definitions] |
| you've |
contracted form of "you have." |
| yowl |
to give forth a loud, plaintive, or distressed cry or wail. [2 definitions] |
| yo-yo |
a hand-held toy made of two thickish, usu. wooden disks connected by a peg around which a string is tied, played by holding the other end of the string and moving the hand so as to cause the disk unit to roll up and down the string, and often to spin at the end of the string. [3 definitions] |
| yr.1 |
abbreviation of "year" or "years." |
| Yugoslavia |
formerly, a southeastern European country on the Balkan Peninsula. It is now divided into the independent republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Serbia. |
| Yukon |
a territory of northwestern Canada. [2 definitions] |
| Yukon River |
a river that flows from the Yukon territory in Canada through central Alaska to the Bering Sea. |
| yule |
(sometimes cap.) Christmas or the Christmas season. |
| yuletide |
(sometimes cap.) the Christmas holiday season. [2 definitions] |
| Yupik |
a member of an indigenous group of people inhabiting parts of Alaska and Siberia, or a descendant of this group. |
| z |
the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. [3 definitions] |
| Zaire |
former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, used from 1971 to 1997. [2 definitions] |
| Zambezi River |
a major river in southern Africa that flows through Zambia, Angola, and Mozambique before emptying into the Indian Ocean. It also touches the borders of Namibia and Botswana and flows along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Zambia |
a south central African country, south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and east of Angola; formerly Northern Rhodesia. |