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

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Letter 76% connected

One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Metal 76% connected

An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmet…

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Fergusonite 70% connected

A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo-niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

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Gadolinite 70% connected

A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.

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Xenotime 70% connected

A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.

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Wye 92% connected

The letter Y.

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Yttrium 92% connected

A rare metallic element of the boron-aluminium group, found in gadolinite and other rare minerals, and extracted as a dark gray powder. Symbol Y. Ato…

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A unknown · 78% connection

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…

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Accent noun · 78% connection

A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same…

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Address verb · 78% connection

To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.

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Anchored adjective · 78% connection

Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

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Apostrophe noun · 78% connection

The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the lette…

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Azymous adjective · 78% connection

Unleavened; unfermented. B () is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, // 196, 220.) It is etymologi…

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Byzantine noun · 78% connection

A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople. C (…

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Cam noun · 78% connection

A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it…

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Clavicle noun · 78% connection

The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man…

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Claw noun · 78% connection

Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

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Clothespin noun · 78% connection

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

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Coefficient noun · 78% connection

A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; he…

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Czechs n. pl. · 78% connection

The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia an…

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Delta noun · 78% connection

A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a ri…

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Drop noun · 78% connection

To send, as a letter; as, please drop me a line, a letter, word.

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Eysell noun · 78% connection

Same as Eisel. F () F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. Th…

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Forcipal adjective · 78% connection

Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

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Forkbeard noun · 78% connection

The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.

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