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X-ray, n. the Röntgen ray. Associated words: fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, cryptoscopy, cryptoscope.

Y. Associated words: ypsiloid, ypsiliform.

yank, n. (Colloq.) pull, jerk, twitch.--v. pull, jerk, twitch, snatch.

yap, n. bark, yelp.

yard, n. three feet; enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law).

yarn, n. worsted, warp, abb, spinel. Associated word: skein.

yawn, v. gape, oscitate.

yawn, n. gape, gaping, yawning, oscitation, oscitancy.

yawning, a. gaping, oscitant.

yearbook, n. annual.

yearly, a. annual, anniversary.--adv. annually.

yearn, v. long, desire, hanker after, pine.

yearning, n. longing, hankering, pining.

yeast, n. harm, leaven, ferment.

yeasty, a. barmy.

yell, n. outcry, scream, shriek, howl, yowl, vociferation.

yell, v. scream, shriek, screech, bawl, howl, yowl, vociferate, hoot.

yellow, a. golden, sallow, tawny, ecru, amber, fallow, fulvous, croconic, jaundiced, fulvid, buff, luteous, saffron, ocherous, lurid.

yellowbird, n. goldfinch.

yellow race. Mongols, Mongolians.

yellows, n. jaundice; jeterus.

yelp, n. bark, yap, yaup.

yes, adv. yea, aye, ay.--n. affirmative, consent.

yield, v. produce, pay, ; submit, surrender, succumb, give up, capitulate; resign, relinquish, cede, forego, waive; concede, admit, grant, allow. Antonyms: resist, retain, withhold, refuse, withstand.

yield, n. product, crop, harvest.

yielding, n. production, bearing, surrender, relinquishment, submission, compliance, acquiescence, succumbing.

yielding, a. compliant, tractable, submissive, amenable, unresisting, docile, indulgent, irresolute, facile; plastic, fictile, pliant, flexible. Antonyms: See unyielding.

yoke, n. oxbow and bar, crosspiece; team, span, pair, couple; bond, link, chain, coupling.

yoke, v. couple, join, unite, link, hitch together; subject, enslave.

yokel, n. bumpkin, boor, rustic.

yolk, n. yelk, vitellus, oviplasma.

young, a. juvenile, youthful, immature, adolescent.

young, n. offspring. Associated words: beget, prolific, fecundity, procreation, fetus, brood, generation, fetiferous, pregnant, pregnancy.

younger, a. junior.

youngest born. Associated word: postremogeniture.

youth, n. juvenility, youthfulness; adolescence, teens, minority, nonage, juniority; young man, lad, boy, stipling, cadet, minor, juvenile, adolescent. Associated words: rejuvenescence, rejuvenation, rejuvenate, rejuvenescent, rejuvenating, juvenescence, juvenescent.

youthful, a. immature, juvenile, adolescent, boyish. Antonyms: adult, manly, mature.