You can make 38 words from yellow according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of yellow
yellow
Alternative forms
yeallow(obsolete), yeller (dialect)
Etymology
From Middle Englishyelwe, yelou, from Old Englishġeolwe, oblique form of Old Englishġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic*gelu, from Proto-Germanic*gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃-(“gleam, yellow”).
1962 (quoting c. 1398 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ȝelouȝ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liȝt red tokeneþ mene.
(informal) Lacking courage.
Synonym:cowardly
(publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
(chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
(chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
(dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
(dated, US)Synonym of high yellow
(UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
(politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party; a political party in Germany.
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Translations
Noun
yellow (pluralyellows)
The colour of sunflower petals and lemons; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
(US) The mid light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
(pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
(sports) A yellow card.
Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
Synonyms
(light wavelengths):xantho- (xanth-)
(intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights):amber(British)
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of "intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights"):red, green
Hyponyms
(color):bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green, yellow 2G
Derived terms
beyellowed
see yellow
Translations
Verb
yellow (third-person singular simple presentyellows, present participleyellowing, simple past and past participleyellowed)
(intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
(transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.