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- English Word -yl Definition A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc.
- English Word Y Definition Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in form the letter Y.
- English Word Y Definition One of the forked holders for supporting the telescope of a leveling instrument, or the axis of a theodolite; a wye.
- English Word Y Definition A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.
- English Word Y Definition A portion of track consisting of two diverging tracks connected by a cross track.
- English Word Y Definition I.
- English Word Y level Definition See under Y, n.
- English Word Y's Definition of Y
- English Word Y- Definition A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use.
- English Word Y- Definition Alt. of I-
- English Word Ya Definition Yea.
- English Word Yacare Definition A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman.
- English Word Yacca Definition A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.
- English Word Yacht Definition A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
- English Word Yacht Definition To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.
- English Word Yachter Definition One engaged in sailing a jacht.
- English Word Yachting Definition Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.
- English Word Yachtman Definition See Yachtsman.
- English Word Yachtsman Definition One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter.
- English Word Yachtsmen Definition of Yachtsman