Nouns in english starting with Y

• yeomanry — Noun – English ～ class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land
• yerba mansa — Noun – English ～ stoloniferous herb of southwestern United States and Mexico having a pungent rootstock and small spicate flowers with white bracts suggesting an anemone
• yerba santa — Noun – English ～ 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
• yerba buena — Noun – English ～ trailing perennial evergreen herb of northwestern United States with small white flowers; used medicinally
• yerevan — Noun – English ～ capital of Armenia
• yerkes — Noun – English ～ United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956)
• Yersin — Noun – English ～ French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)
• Yersinia pestis — Noun – English ～ a bacillus bacterium that causes the plague; aerosolized bacteria can be used as a bioweapon
• Yerupaja — Noun – English ～ a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high)
• Yerwa-Maiduguri — Noun – English ～ a city in northeastern Nigeria; an agricultural trading center
• yes — Noun – English ～ an affirmative; "I was hoping for a yes"
• yes-no question — Noun – English ～ a question that can be answered by yes or no
• yes-man — Noun – English ～ a person of unquestioning obedience
• yeshiva — Noun – English ～ an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud)
• yeshivah — Noun – English ～ an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud)
• yesterday — Noun – English ～ the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"
• yesterday — Noun – English ～ the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
• yesteryear — Noun – English ～ the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"
• yeti — Noun – English ～ a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas
• Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko — Noun – English ～ Russian poet who expressed the feelings of the post-Stalinist generation (born in 1933)

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