in former times was free and cultivated his own land
yeoman
Noun
officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
yodeller
Noun
a singer who changes register rapidly, popular in Swiss folk songs
yogi
Noun
one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight
yokel
Noun
a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
yahoo
Noun
a person who acts recklessly or dangerously
yahoo
Noun
a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
yellow cypress
Noun
tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament
yellowwood
Noun
any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract
yellowwood
Noun
the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees
yacca
Noun
West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves
yew
Noun
any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
yellow poplar
Noun
tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit
yellow poplar
Noun
light easily worked wood of a tulip tree
yellow root
Noun
a perennial herb found in the northeastern United States, identifiable by a thick, knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves
yautia
Noun
tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes
yellow chamomile
Noun
Eurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers
yarrow
Noun
ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets
yellow lady-slipper
Noun
maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip
yellow loosestrife
Noun
frequently considered a weed
yardgrass
Noun
coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers
yellow bristlegrass
Noun
common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas
yellow iris
Noun
common yellow-flowered iris of Europe and North Africa, naturalized in United States and often cultivated
yellow globe lily
Noun
globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers
yellow clintonia
Noun
common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits
yucca
Noun
any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, typically characterized by tall, stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers
yellow jasmine
Noun
poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers
yellow cleavers
Noun
common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw
yellow foxglove
Noun
European yellow-flowered foxglove
yeast
Noun
any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
yeast
Noun
a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells
yottabyte
Noun
a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes
yottabyte
Noun
a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes
yobibyte
Noun
a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes
yottabit
Noun
a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabits or 10^24 bits
yobibit
Noun
a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibits or 2^80 bits
yuan
Noun
the basic unit of money in China
yaws
Noun
an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages
yellow fever
Noun
caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
yellow-blue dichromacy
Noun
confusion of yellow and blue
yellow-blindness
Noun
a form of dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to yellow light
yatobyo
Noun
a highly infectious disease of rodents, especially rabbits and squirrels, and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
yips
Noun
nervous tension that causes an athlete to fail, especially causing golfers to miss short putts
ylem
Noun
in cosmology, the original matter that, according to the big bang theory, existed before the formation of the chemical elements
yellow peril
Noun
the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples
ytterbium
Noun
a soft silvery metallic element
yttrium
Noun
a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals
yellow metal
Noun
an alpha-beta brass that is about 60% copper and 40% iron