solar year
— Noun
– English
～ the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes
sidereal year
— Noun
– English
～ the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars
seventeen-year locust
— Noun
– English
～ North American cicada; appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take 13 to 17 years to mature
second-year
— Adjective
– English
～ used of the second year in United States high school or college; "the sophomore class"; "his sophomore year"
Seven Years' War
— Noun
– English
～ a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (1756-1763); Britain and Prussia got the better of it
Sir Yehudi Menuhin
— Noun
– English
～ British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (1916-1999)
southern yellow pine
— Noun
– English
～ large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree
shortleaf yellow pine
— Noun
– English
～ large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature
sulfur-yellow
— Adjective
– English
～ of something having the yellow color of sulfur
sulphur-yellow
— Adjective
– English
～ of something having the yellow color of sulfur
South-African yellowwood
— Noun
– English
～ erect or shrubby tree of Africa having ridged dark grey bark and rigid glossy medium to long leaves
stinking yew
— Noun
– English
～ rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed
Sun Yixian
— Noun
– English
～ Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925)
South Yorkshire
— Noun
– English
～ a metropolitan county in northern England
siege of Yorktown
— Noun
– English
～ in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution
Sir James Young Simpson
— Noun
– English
～ Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)
Strauss the Younger
— Noun
– English
～ Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899)
sincerely yours
— Adverb
– English
～ written formula for ending a letter
second battle of Ypres
— Noun
– English
～ battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
spoonleaf yucca
— Noun
– English
～ yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages