Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

y: ignorance 491 N. money 800 N.
yacht: ship 273 N.
yachting: navigation 267 N.
yaffle: quantity 25 N.
yager: combatant 726 N.
yahoo: commonality 876 N.
yak: animal 366 N.
yam: vegetable 367 N.
yama: Jupiter 979 N.
yammer: lamentation 839 V.
yang and yin: counteraction 179 N.
yang-yin: counteraction 179 N.
yankee: inhabitant 188 N. cunning 702 N.
yap: ululation 412 V.
yard measure: measurement 466 N.
yard sale: mart 799 N.
yard: inclosure 232 N. length 200 N. abode 189 N. workshop 691 N.
yardarm to yardarm: nearness 197 Adv.
yardman: servant 746 N.
yards: space 180 N.
yare: activity 682 Adj.
yarn: filament 205 N. exaggeration 549 N.
yarr: ululation 412 V.
yarrow: remedy 662 N.
yatacban: arms 727 N.
yataghan: arms 727 N.
yaup: cry 411 V.
yaw: deviation 279 V.
yawl: ship 273 N. ululation 412 V.
yawn: inactivity 683 V. fatigue 688 V. weariness 841 V. opening 260 V.
yawning gulf: interval 198 N.
yawning: depth 208 Adj. fatigue 688 N. opening 260 Adj. opening 260 N.
ycleped: nomenclature 564 Adj.
ye gods!: wonder 870 Int.
yea: superiority 33 Adv. assent 488 Adv.
yean: production 161 V.
year after year: repetition 104 Adv.
year: time 106 N. period 108 N.
yearbook: regularity of recurrence 138 N.
yearling: infant 129 N.
yearly: regularity of recurrence 138 Adj.
yearn for: desire 865 V. pity 914 V.
yearn: pain 828 V. dejection 837 V.
yearning: desire 865 N. love 897 N. pity 914 N.
years ago: the past 122 Adv.
years old: age 128 Adj.
years: age 128 N.
yeast: levity 320 N. bubble; cloud 353 N.
yeasty: newness 123 Adj. life 359 Adj.
yeild: submission 725 V.
yell: cry 411 V.
yellow as a crow's foot: yellowness 436 Adj.
yellow as a guinea: yellowness 436 Adj.
yellow as a quince: yellowness 436 Adj.
yellow cab: vehicle 272 N.
yellow cover: abrogation 756 N.
yellow fever: disease 655 N.
yellow flag: warning 668 N. alarm 669 N.
yellow jack: indication 550 N. disease 655 N.
yellow journalism: excitation 824 N.
yellow ocher: yellowness 436 N.
yellow phosphorus: luminary 423 N.
yellow streak: cowardice 862 N.
yellow: excitation 824 Adj. yellowness 436 Adj. yellowness 436 N.
yellow-eyed: jealousy 920 Adj.
yellow-flag: indication 550 N.
yellowness: yellowness 436 N.
yellows: jealousy 920 N.
yelp: stridor 410 V. ululation 412 V.
yeoman: agriculture 371 N. man 373 N.
yeomanry: combatant 726 N.
yeomen of the guard: combatant 726 N.
yerk: impulse 276 N. impulse 276 V.
yes: consent 762 Adv. assent 488 Adv. affirmation 535 Adv. willingness 602 Adv. permission 760 Adv.
yes-man: flatterer 935 N. servility 886 N.
yesterday: the past 122 Adv.
yesteryear: the past 122 Adv.
yet: qualification 469 Adv. compensation 30 Adv. unconformity 83 Adv. time 106 Adv. priority 116 Adv. the past 122 Adv.
yew: vegetable 367 N.
yield assent: assent 488 V. consent 762 V.
yield one's breath: death 360 V.
yield pleasure: pleasurableness 829 V.
yield the palm: humility 879 V. inferiority 34 V.
yield to despair: hopelessness 859 V.
yield to temptation: motive 615 V.
yield up the ghost: death 360 V.
yield: giving 784 V. receipt 810 V. relinquishment 782 V. consent 762 V. softness 324 V. price 812 V.
yieldance: consent 762 N.
yielding as wax: softness 324 Adj.
yielding: softness 324 Adj. facility 705 Adj. submission 725 N.
yieldingness: consent 762 N.
yip: ululation 412 V.
yipe: ululation 412 V.
yogi: asceticism 955 N.
yoho!: attention 457 Int.
yoicks!: pursuit 622 Int.
yoke: connection 45 N. prison 752 N. subjection 749 N. duality 89 N. junction 43 V. duality 89 V.
yokel: bungler 701 N. commonality 876 N.
yokemate: marriage 903 N.
yolk: yellowness 436 N.
yom kippur: rite 998 N.
yon: speciality 79 Adj. distance 196 Adj.
yonder: speciality 79 Adj. distance 196 Adj. distance 196 Adv.
you bet: assent 488 Adv.
you can't go home again: the past 122 Phr.
you don't say so!: wonder 870 Int.
you get what you pay for: price 812 Phr.
you may be sure: affirmation 535 Adv.
you said a mouthful: assent 488 Adv.
you said it: assent 488 Adv.
you too: retaliation 718 Phr.
young love: love 897 N.
young man: love 897 N.
young: youth 127 Adj. newness 123 Adj.
younger: youth 127 Adj.
young's modulus: elasticity 325 N.
youngster: infant 129 N.
youngun: infant 129 N.
younker: infant 129 N.
your honor: title 877 N.
your humble servant: dissent 489 Int. refusal 764 Phr.
your wish is my command: obedience 743 Phr.
you're another: retaliation 718 Phr.
you're kidding!: wonder 870 Int.
youth: infant 129 N. weakness 160 N. youth 127 N. newness 123 N.
youthful: youth 127 Adj.
youthhood: youth 127 N.
yucca: sharpness 253 N.
yule candle: omen 512 N.
yule log: amusement 840 N.
yuletide: regularity of recurrence 138 N.