Words starting with y

Words and definitions

Ycleped means: of Clepe

Y's means: of Y

Ys means: of Y

Y means: Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in form the letter Y.

Y means: One of the forked holders for supporting the telescope of a leveling instrument, or the axis of a theodolite; a wye.

Y means: A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.

Y means: A portion of track consisting of two diverging tracks connected by a cross track.

Y means: I.

Y- means: Alt. of I-

Y- means: 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.

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.