List of acronyms: Y

This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends  that begin with the letter Y.

For the purposes of this list:

  • acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome, pronounced to rhyme with cars
  • initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee
  • pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
(a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome
(i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
(s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – Megahertz)

(Main list of acronyms)

Y0–9
  • Y2K – (i) Year Two Thousand

YA
  • yA – (s) Yoctoampere
  • Ya – (s) Yottayear
  • YA – (s) Yottaampere – (i) Young Adult
  • YAC – (a/i) Youth-Adult Committee
  • YAFLA – (a) Yet Another Five Letter Abbreviation
  • YAP – (a) Young Aspiring Professional
  • YaBPr – (a) Yet another Brother Pat rant
  • YABSLAG – (a) Yet another boy singing like a girl

YB
  • Yb – (s) Ytterbium
  • YB – (i) Youcef Benzouada (Southern Algerian name)

YC

YD
  • YD – (s) People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (ISO 3166 digram, obsolete 1990)
  • YDS – (i) Yosemite Decimal System (climbing)

YE

YF

YG

YH
  • yH – (s) Yoctohenry
  • YH – (s) Yottahenry
  • YHS – Ya Hoor sur!
  • YHBT – (i) You Have Been Trolled
  • YHIH1 – (a) You Heard It Here First (lowercase: yhih1, pronounced yi-hi)
  • YHII – You Have It Inside

YI
  • yi – (s) Yiddish language (ISO 639-1 code)
  • Yi – (s) Yobi
  • YI – (s) Serbia and Montenegro (deprecated FIPS 10-4 country code, now RB (Serbia) and MJ (Montenegro))
  • yid – (s) Yiddish language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • YILP - (a) Youth Integration Livelihood Improvement Project
  • Yippie – (p) Youth International Party + suffix

YJ

YK
  • yK – (s) Yoctokelvin
  • YK – (s) Yottakelvin
  • YKYFCW – You know you're from Christchurch when (post-earthquake joke)

YL

YM
  • ym – (s) Yoctometre
  • Ym – (s) Yottametre
  • YM – (s) Yemen (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Your Magazine (originally Young Miss, later Young & Modern)
  • YMCA – (i) Young Men's Christian Association
  • YMD – (s) People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (ISO 3166 trigram, obsolete 1990)
  • YMMD – (i) You Make My Day
  • YMMV – (i) Your Mileage May Vary (adapted from the EPA's automobile mileage estimates, where it is used to convey the original meaning, "results may vary"); but (now) when used as an idiom, it -- (either the acronym "YMMV" or the 4 words) -- can instead mean (this e.g. comes from wikt:your mileage may vary#Phrase:) "this is just my opinion, your opinion may be different".

YN

YO

YP
  • YPA – (i) Yards per Pass Attempt (football statistic)
  • YPG – (i) Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (Kurdish, "People's Protection Units" or "People's Defense Units")
  • YPIO – (a) Your Problem Is Obvious
  • YPO – (a) Young Presidents' Organization

YQ

YR

YS

YT

YU

YV

YW
  • yW – (s) Yoctowatt
  • YW – (s) Yottawatt
  • YWCA – (i) Young Women's Christian Association
  • YWMV – (i) Your Wallet May Vary (to convey "our budgets are different as far as what is affordable / justifiable")

YX

YY
  • YYH – (i) YuYu Hakusho
  • YYK – (i) Yeah you know

YZ
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