Elementary Vocabulary
36,007 words and 29 expressions at the elementary level.
The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.
Initialism of The Young and the Restless: an American television soap opera first broadcast in 1973.
Contraction of ye + had.
plural of y
Used with past participle conjugations to form past participles (this prefix does not occur independently and is no longer productive).
Abbreviation of year(s) old; also yo, y/o.
Initialism of the Yukon Territory: a territory of Canada.
Initialism of yarn dyed.
Initialism of yes/no.
Abbreviation of year(s) old; also yo, y.o.
Abbreviation of year-on-year.
Abbreviation of year 10000.
Abbreviation of year 2000.
yea; yes
Alternative spelling of ya (you).
The letter ي (y) in the Arabic script.
Alternative form of Ya'an.
A friend, pal, or buddy.
plural of yaa
To satirize or roast; to abuse verbally.
Acronym of yet another bloody acronym.
A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
third-person singular simple present indicative of yab
Alternative form of yaboo (“Afghan pony”).
Initialism of yeast artificial chromosome.
Alternative form of yak (“chatter; talk”).
A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.
Only used in yada yada yada
Alternative form of yaud.
Alternative form of yada; only used in yadi yadi yada and yadi-yadi-ya.
plural of yad
A Burmese form of poetry consisting of up to three stanzas of five lines, with certain constraints on syllables and rhyme.
The Korean vowel ㅒ.
A female given name from Hebrew.
plural of yae
Initialism of young adult fiction.
To bark, yelp.
A Pauwasi language spoken in Indonesia.
Alternative form of Jaffa.
Initialism of yttrium aluminium garnet: a synthetic material used in lasers and formerly as an artificial gemstone.
Ayahuasca.
Yagi-Uda antenna
A male given name from Spanish.
plural of YAG
Alternative spelling of yage.
Yes.
The southernmost portion of the Yana people.
A hamlet in the Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada, not far from the United States border.
A surname.
plural of yah
Alternative spelling of Jah, based on the Hebrew theophoric variant of יָהּ (yah) — ־יָהוּ (yahu)
A male given name from Hebrew.
Alternative spelling of yage.
An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
An African ethnic group of the southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A surname from German.
teppanyaki
Alternative spelling of yak (to talk, to vomit)
plural of yak
A condition that scores points when met, usually in the form of a specific combination of tiles or cards.
Initialism of Young Americans for Liberty.
A province of Thailand.
Alternative form of yauld.
A university in the eastern United States.
A type of house, particularly found on the Bosporus.
Alternative spelling of y'all.
A river on the China-North Korea border.
Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
The Hindu lord of death, who rides a buffalo.
A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Tao people.
A human-readable data serialization format that takes concepts from XML and from various programming languages.
An intermicronational organisation that is useless, unnecessary or deficient in some aspect; used to insult, or convey disapproval of, an intermicronational organisation.
An umbelliferous plant, Perideridia gairdneri, native to California, whose tubers were used as food by Native Americans.
plural of yam
One.
A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.
Alternative letter-case form of Yank (“Yankee”).
Synonym of shabono (“communal hut built by the Yanomamo people”).
plural of Yan
A surname.
A Bantu people living in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania in Africa.
A narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between two or more men.
An island in the Caroline Islands of western Micronesia.
A member of the Warlpiri people of Australia.
In bookbinding, the edge of the binding that extends beyond the edges of the pages, and may protect the gilding.
plural of yap
To snarl; to gnar.
A female given name.
herb
A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
A semi-hard cheese made in Cornwall with a distinctive rind made by wrapping the cheese in nettle leaves.
Any of various sizes of spear used in Japanese martial arts.
To make ready; prepare.
A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
To cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.
A twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving.
To growl or snarl like a dog.
third-person singular simple present indicative of yar
A village in Hormozgan Province, Iran.
Ready.
plural of Ya
A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Pronunciation spelling of yes.
A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital Ѣ, Cyrillic small ѣ, Glagolitic ⱑ), no longer in current use
Obsolete form of gate.
a Jain monk
plural of yat
A gate.
A surname.
A workhorse; an old or worn-out mare.
Alternative form of yawl.
A surname from Dutch.
Obsolete spelling of yawp.
plural of Yau
Alternative form of kava.
A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Initialism of Youth Against War and Fascism.
To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
A person who yawns.
A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, which often resemble berries.
Pertaining to, or afflicted with, the disease yaws.
Alternative spelling of yea.
A nanny; female caregiver; nursemaid
plural of yay
A city in Iran, the seat of Yazd County's Central District and the capital of Yazd Province.
A fretless harp of ancient Tamil origin, with a variable number of gut strings, characterized by a boat-shaped resonator.
A town and district of Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
Abbreviation of Ybit.
Initialism of Young British Artist.
plural of YBA
Initialism of yttrium barium copper oxide: component elements used in the manufacture of one type of high-temperature superconducting material.
Initialism of Yellow Bus Line Incorporated.
Initialism of years before present.
prototype cargoplane (prefix)
Obsolete spelling of ice.
plural of YCH
Obsolete form of icy.
Initialism of Young Communist League, the youth section of the Communist Party of the USA.
Initialism of YSR Congress Party, a political party.
Alternative form of yd..
Abbreviation of yard (“unit of length”).
Abbreviation of yardage.
Synonym of Yang di-Pertuan Agong (“the paramount monarch of Malaysia”).
plural of yd; yards
Initialism of Youth Development Training.
You (the people being addressed).
Yes, indeed.
head
To give birth to.
Alternative spelling of yep.
A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
plural of yea
Alternative spelling of gate, obsolete except in place names.
Misspelling of yea (“thus, so”).
yes
Initialism of Young Earth creationism.
An exclamation of disgust.
A surname from German.
plural of YEC
To speak; sing.
simple past of go, now replaced by went.
Alternative form of Edo.
plural of yed
You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.
Alternative form of yede.
eek; the sound of a mouse.
An expression of surprise or dismay
Obsolete spelling of year.
you
A type of dance involving dipping one's shoulder and swinging both hands out, while an audience repeatedly chants "YEET yah, yah, yah, yah".
Alternative form of yegg.
plural of yeg
Alternative form of yeah; yes.
plural of Yeh
A bowed string instrument in the huqin family.
A city in South Sudan.
A district of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
Obsolete spelling of yell.
barren, not pregnant, not giving milk
a New Guinean language.
Obsolete form of yolk.
Someone who yells.
The state, quality, or degree of being yellow in colour.
Somewhat yellow; yellowish.
A bundle of straw laid out straight, chiefly to be used for thatching; a helm.
An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
A young sow who has not yet had a litter.
A Vietnamese bodice with a halterneck and a V-shaped bottom worn by women on the torso, originally as an underbodice and now also as an outer garment.
To keep, to observe, to pay attention.
A surname from Old English.
plural of yem
plural of yen
Alternative form of ea.
A Chinese surname from Hokkien or Teochew.
plural of yeo
Expressing sudden pain or startlement.
Initialism of Yorkshire Evening Post.
yikes; oh no
plural of Yep
Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.
Pronunciation spelling of herb.
A yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.
your (plural); of ye, belonging to ye
lake
To stab (someone or something).
eagerly, heartily, gladly, willingly, earnestly.
Alternative spelling of gyro (Greek sandwich)
plural of yer
A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: ы (y), now usually simply called "ы"
Abbreviation of Yangon Electricity Supply Corporation.
Pronunciation spelling of yes.
Alternative form of yex.
Obsolete spelling of Ezo (“former name of Hokkaido”).
Obsolete spelling of yeast.
In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.
Alternative form of yet ("to melt, found").
plural of yet
Gate.
itch, a prickly feeling
A surname from Korean.
plural of yew
Alternative form of uey.
To hiccup.
Alternative spelling of yay.
Alternative spelling of yayo.
you (plural)
Dated spelling of Ezo.
prototype fighter (prefix)
Initialism of younger father's brother's daughter; father's brother's daughter younger than oneself.
Initialism of younger father's brother's son; father's brother's son younger than oneself.
past participle of feed
Alternative form of yfm (“you feel me?”).
Initialism of younger father's sister's daughter; father's sister's daughter younger than oneself.
Initialism of younger father's sister's son; father's sister's son younger than oneself.
Alternative letter-case form of YGMI.
Obsolete spelling of ago.
Obsolete spelling of ago.
past participle of get
plural of YG
Initialism of you got that right.
Initialism of Youth Hostels Association.
past participle of have
The Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay female personification of the Sun
Alternative form of YHWH.
The deity worshipped in Abrahamitic religions, Yahweh, called Adonai in Judaism due to a taboo on using the full name, and God and the Lord in Christianity.
An ethnic group who live primarily in mountainous areas of southwest China.
Abbreviation of yobibyte.
Used to indicate disgust
Alternative letter-case form of Yid.
plural of Yid
plural of yid
A county-level city of Yichang, Hubei, China.
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
If.
Abbreviation of yttrium iron garnet (a compound composed of yttrium, iron, garnet, which is mineral magnetic insulator).
Yes, used when contradicting.
To utter the exclamation yikes.
A yell.
Alternative form of gilt (“young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding”).
A surname.
A county-level city of Sanmenxia, Henan, China.
plural of Yim
A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world.
An ethnic group of the Amazon.
A surname.
plural of yin
You.
a sharp, high-pitched bark
Used to express surprise, fear, or dismay.
plural of yip
Pronunciation spelling of your.
Alternative form of yerk.
Pronunciation spelling of yes.
Pronunciation spelling of yes.
The yellowhammer.
Obsolete form of yet.
Alternative form of Yidu.
A surname from Chinese.
plural of Yiu
Institute for Jewish Research
A county of Hami, Xinjiang, China.
Alternative form of yous.
Initialism of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (a 2013 Hindi film).
YT: Abbreviation of Yukon: a territory of Canada.
Abbreviation of Yukon: a territory of Canada.
Initialism of Yukon Court of Appeal.
Initialism of Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, a manufacturer of zip fasteners.
Abbreviation of yokukansan.
Abbreviation of Yorkshire.
Initialism of Yukon Supreme Court.
Initialism of Yukon Territorial Court.
Censored spelling of YHVH.
Abbreviation of yield.
In the Big Bang theory, the hot and dense plasma that made up the matter in the cosmos following the initial baryogenesis at an early stage of its expansion and cooling, from which the first atoms formed and photons decoupled. The emission of photons in this phase is regarded as the source of the cosmic microwave background.
Alternative form of ylide.
Initialism of Years of life lost.
plural of YLL
Initialism of yellow light of death.
Initialism of Yale Law School.
Abbreviation of yellow.
Initialism of Young Men's Christian Association.
past participle of meet
Initialism of Young Men's Hebrew Association.
A moon of Saturn.
Obsolete form of imp (“young shoot of a plant”).
Related to health or finances, and thus representing content upon which Google attempts to apply more stringent criteria.
Alternative letter-case form of YN.
Obsolete form of India.
A female given name from Spanish, a less common spelling of Inez.
Abbreviation of young.
Any compound having a hydroxyl group directly attached to an acetylene group; they are tautomeric with ketenes.
A male given name from Hebrew.
Initialism of Yellowstone National Park.
Initialism of you'll never walk alone, an anthem commonly used by Liverpool football club Liverpool F.C. and the Scottish club Celtic F.C.
A hamlet in Llanystumdwy community, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH4642).
Abbreviation of year(s) old; also y.o., y/o.
Alternative spelling of yo (non-rhotic with dough-door merger pronunciation of your)
Obsolete spelling of yoke.
A clinker-built small boat used traditionally in Shetland.
A male given name from Hebrew.
Initialism of year of birth.
A state of Nigeria in the North East geopolitical zone. Capital: Damaturu. Largest city: Potiskum.
Alternative form of yobbo (“person engaging in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness”).
plural of yob
A laugh, especially a loud or hearty one.
Alternative form of yodh.
A type of an odd or eccentric word order, as typified by Yoda in lines such as, "Into exile I must go. Failed I have."
simple past of go; went.
To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.
The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
plural of yod
Alternative form of yowe.
A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Joel.
plural of yoe
A letter of the Middle English alphabet (capital Ȝ, small ȝ), in form derived from the Old English shape of the letter g, and used to represent various palatal and velar sounds.
A devotee or adherent of yoga.
Expresses surprise, wonder, admiration, frustration, shock, or distress.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
A preparatory position in karate, with the arms slightly forward, elbows slightly bent, and fists closed.
A traditional style of Sami singing or chanting.
plural of YOI
Alternative form of yite.
Alternative form of yock.
To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
A female given name from Japanese.
plural of yok
pertaining to or consisting of a yoke
An extinct West Germanic language formerly spoken in Wexford, Ireland.
simple past of yield.
A Scottish rowing boat that could also use a sail
The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
Alternative form of yo'll.
Alternative letter-case form of YOLO.
Initialism of you owe me.
The Japanese underworld, whose exits are guarded by horrible creatures.
A long-distance march carrying full kit.
Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
Obsolete spelling of young.
A surname from Aramaic.
plural of Yon
Alternative form of ayont (“beyond”).
Eye dialect spelling of you.
Alternative form of uzhe; Clipping of usual.
you are
A surname from Korean.
A sobbing sound.
plural of Yoo
Pronunciation spelling of youth.
Initialism of Youth Opportunities Programme, a British youth employment programme of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Introduced by the Callaghan government but popularly associated with Thatcherism. Replaced by the YTS.
Initialism of young-onset Parkinson's disease.
A perennial South American tree, Anadenanthera peregrina, that has a number of traditional uses.
A surname.
plural of YOP
Eye dialect spelling of your.
to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.
Yours.
An era of Japan
plural of yo
A surname.
Former name of Yeosu.
The letter Ϳϳ, an uncommon variant of Jj used in Greek linguistics.
To pour water on; pour in.
plural of yot
The person spoken to, including their entire system.
Obsolete form of you.
Alternative form of yeuk.
A surname.
A young person.
The group spoken or written to.
Pronunciation spelling of youth.
The quality or state of being young.
Young or seeming young.
Alternative form of yowe.
A ewe; a female sheep.
A surname.
plural of yow
Alternative form of yex (“hiccup”).
Initialism of year-over-year or year-on-year.
Alternative spelling of yo-yo.
Initialism of young prisoner.
Initialism of YouTube Partner Program.
plural of YP
Initialism of Yamaha Power Valve System.
Abbreviation of year.
Abbreviation of yearbook.
Initialism of Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
Initialism of Yangtze River Delta: a region eastern China, bordering the East China Sea; An area on the east coast of China, containing Shanghai, Nanjing (“Nanking”), Suzhou (“Soochow”), Hangzhou (“Hangchow”).
Archaic spelling of ire.
Abbreviation of yearly.
yarn round needle
Archaic spelling of iron.
Abbreviation of years; plural of yr.
Alternative spelling of yrs.
Initialism of Young Religious Unitarian Universalists.
plural of y
A river that flows through French and West Flanders to the North Sea.
Initialism of yellow supergiant.
plural of YSG
Abbreviation of Young Socialist League, any of a number of socialist organizations and youth wings.
Abbreviation of young stellar object.
plural of YSO
Initialism of Young-Simpson syndrome.
Initialism of yolk sac tumor.
Abbreviation of youngest.
Alternative letter-case form of yt (“whitey”).
Initialism of year-to-date.
Alternative form of ithe.
Initialism of yield to maturity.
plural of YTP
Initialism of Youth Training Scheme.
Obsolete form of yet.
A gene in Bacillus subtilis that codes for a blue light photoreceptor protein (YtvA).
An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
YT: Abbreviation of Yukon: a territory of Canada.
The basic unit of money in China.
A dialect of Nyungar, an Australian Aboriginal language,
Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.
Abbreviation of Yucatán: a state of Mexico.
cassava
Alternative spelling of yech.
A district of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
Alternative spelling of yodh.
plural of yud
An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
Alternative spelling of Yue.
A crowned gibbon or pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus)
Russia leather.
Archaic form of yuga (“any of the religious ages in Hinduism”).
In Hindu theology, a period of a few hundred or thousand years, or an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years.
Pronunciation spelling of huge, representing New York City English.
Alternative spelling of Yug.
Abbreviation of Yugoslavia.
plural of yug
you
plural of yuh
A unisex given name from Japanese.
Obsolete spelling of ivy.
A group of Australian Aboriginal peoples from the South Coast of New South Wales.
Synonym of Siberian Yupik.
An exuberant laugh.
A female given name from Japanese.
Alternative form of yeuk.
A Native American people from northern California.
The score for a throw that lands the opponent on his or her side.
plural of yuk
Christmastide, the Christmas season, the Twelve Days of Christmas (between December 25ᵗʰ and January 5ᵗʰ).
An urban township in Hualien County, Taiwan.
A Chinese scull (oar)
Indicating delight at the flavor of food.
A city, the county seat of Yuma County, in southwestern Arizona, United States.
A type of archery bow from Japan.
To leave the ground briefly when driving over a ridge at high speed.
plural of Yum
A surname from Korean.
A town in Mid West, Western Australia, Australia.
A surname.
plural of Yun
Initialism of Yale University Press.
plural of yup
Pronunciation spelling of your.
A certain group of Pama-Nyungan languages.
Pronunciation spelling of your.
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George.
plural of yur
Alternative form of Yuri.
Alternative form of yes.
A greeting.
A female given name.
A foolish, incompetent, awkward, or contemptible person.
The ninth year of the 60-year cycle of the Tamil calendar.
A prefecture-level city of Yunnan, China.
Alternative form of yous.
Alternative form of uzhe; Clipping of usual.
A citrus fruit originating in East Asia, Citrus ichangensis x Citrus reticulata var. austera.
A male given name from French
Initialism of Youth With A Mission, an interdenominational Christian missionary organization.