battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
<noun.act>

Ypres

battle of Ypres

first battle of Ypres

battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
<noun.act>

Ypres

battle of Ypres

second battle of Ypres

battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
<noun.act>

Ypres

battle of Ypres

third battle of Ypres

a sweet white French wine
<noun.food>

Yquem

the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368
<noun.group>

Mongol dynasty

Yuan

Yuan dynasty

the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368
<noun.group>

Mongol dynasty

Yuan

Yuan dynasty

a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
<noun.location>

Yucatan

Yucatan Peninsula

a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula
<noun.location>

Yucatan

a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
<noun.location>

Yucatan

Yucatan Peninsula

a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec
<noun.communication>

Yucatec

Yucateco

a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico
<noun.person>

Yucatec

Yucateco

a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec
<noun.communication>

Yucatec

Yucateco

a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico
<noun.person>

Yucatec

Yucateco

a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers
<noun.plant>

Spanish bayonet

Yucca aloifolia

tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers
<noun.plant>

Spanish bayonet

Yucca baccata

a large branched arborescent yucca of southwestern United States having short leaves and clustered greenish white flowers
<noun.plant>

Joshua tree

Yucca brevifolia

arborescent yucca of southwestern United States and northern Mexico with sword-shaped leaves and white flowers
<noun.plant>

Spanish dagger

Yucca carnerosana

tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States
<noun.plant>

Yucca elata

soap tree

soap-weed

soapweed

yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
<noun.plant>

Adam's needle

Adam's needle-and-thread

Yucca filamentosa

needle palm

spoonleaf yucca

yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
<noun.plant>

Yucca glauca

bear grass

yucca of southeastern United States similar to the Spanish bayonets but with shorter trunk and smoother leaves
<noun.plant>

Spanish dagger

Yucca gloriosa

yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers
<noun.plant>

Yucca smalliana

bear grass

yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers
<noun.plant>

Our Lord's candle

Yucca whipplei

the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
<noun.communication>

Cantonese

Cantonese dialect

Yue

Yue dialect

the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
<noun.communication>

Cantonese

Cantonese dialect

Yue

Yue dialect

of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages
<adj.pert>

Yugoslav

Yugoslavian

sample sentences

"Yugoslavian wine"

a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia
<noun.person>

Jugoslav

Jugoslavian

Yugoslav

Yugoslavian

a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980
<noun.location>

Yugoslavia

sample sentences

"Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro"

a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro
<noun.location>

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Jugoslavija

Serbia and Montenegro

Union of Serbia and Montenegro

Yugoslavia

of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages
<adj.pert>

Yugoslav

Yugoslavian

sample sentences

"Yugoslavian wine"

a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia
<noun.person>

Jugoslav

Jugoslavian

Yugoslav

Yugoslavian

the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia
<noun.quantity>

Yugoslavian dinar

dinar

monetary unit in Yugoslavia
<noun.quantity>

Yugoslavian monetary unit

Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981)
<noun.person>

Hideki Yukawa

Yukawa

a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s
<noun.location>

Yukon

Yukon Territory

a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea
<noun.object>

Yukon

Yukon River

a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea
<noun.object>

Yukon

Yukon River