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Xylene
- noun - a colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent
Xylite
- - A liquid hydrocarbon found in crude wood spirits.
Xylose
- noun - a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics
Yacare
- - 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.
Yaffle
- - The European green woodpecker (Picus viridis syn. Genius viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.
Yankee
- adjective - an American (especially to non-Americans)
- an American who lives in New England
- an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
- used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)
Yarage
- - The power of moving, or being managed, at sea; -- said with reference to a ship.
Yardie
- noun - member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence; "A much publicized raid on a yardie stronghold had first been simulated at Riot City"
Yenite
- - A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; -- also called ilvaite.