| one-night stand | a performance in one place on one night only |
nightlife
night life | the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.), a futile search for intelligent nightlife, in the summer the nightlife shifts to the dance clubs |
| night game | a game played under artificial illumination at night |
| nightlife night life | the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion |
| one-night stand | a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night, he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands |
| watch night | a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve) |
| night-stop | a break in a journey for the night |
| onion yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants |
| potato yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants |
| yellow-green algae | any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment |
| night bird | any bird associated with night: owl, nightingale, nighthawk, etc |
| night raven | any bird that cries at night |
yellowhammer yellow bunting
Emberiza citrinella | European bunting the male being bright yellow |
yellow-breasted bunting
Emberiza aureola | common in Russia and Siberia |
yellow warbler
golden warbler
yellowbird Dendroica petechia | yellow-throated American wood warbler |
yellow-breasted chat
Icteria virens | American warbler noted for imitating songs of other birds |
owl
bird of Minerva
bird of night
hooter | nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes |
slider
yellow-bellied terrapin
Pseudemys scripta | freshwater turtle of United States and South America, frequently raised commercially, some young sold as pets |
| night lizard | small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba, bear live young |
night snake
Hypsiglena torquata | nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico |
yellow-shafted flicker
Colaptes auratus
yellowhammer | large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail |
yellow-bellied sapsucker
Sphyrapicus varius | eastern North American sapsucker having a pale yellow abdomen |
| heron | grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill |
great blue heron
Ardea herodius | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage |
| great white heron Ardea occidentalis | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys |
little blue heron
Egretta caerulea | small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere |
snowy egret
snowy heron
Egretta thula | small New World egret |
| great white heron Casmerodius albus | widely distributed Old World white egret |
American egret
great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
night heron
night raven | nocturnal or crepuscular herons |
blackrowned night heron
Nycticorax nycticorax | night heron of both Old and New Worlds |
yellowrowned night heron
Nyctanassa violacea | North American night heron |
boatbill
boat-billed heron
broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
yellow-fever mosquito
Aedes aegypti | mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue |
yellow jacket
yellow hornet
Vespula maculifrons | small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground |
yellow-throated marten
Charronia flavigula | large yellow and black marten of southern China and Burma |
yellow perch
Perca flavescens | North American perch |
yellow bass
Morone interrupta | North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass |
yellow jack
Caranx bartholomaei | fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico |
yellow goatfish
Mulloidichthys martinicus | schooling goatfish, greyish with yellow stripe |
tub gurnard
yellow gurnard
Trigla lucerna | a kind of gurnard |
cabaret
nightclub
night club
club nightspot | a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink, don't expect a good meal at a cabaret, the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night, he played the drums at a jazz club |
| night bell | a doorbell to be used at night |
| night latch | doorlock operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside |
| night-light | light (as a candle or small bulb) that burns in a bedroom at night (as for children or invalids) |
| night-line | a fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night |
pentobarbital sodium
pentobarbital
Nembutal
yellow jacket | a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic |
| Saturday night special | a cheap handgun that is easily obtained |
| yellow jack | yellow flag hoist on a ship in quarantine |
yellow
yellowness | yellow color or pigment, the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons |