Yams is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for YAMS in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of a cat) miaow
NOUN:
• YAM, a sweet potato
• the edible starchy tuber of a climbing plant, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical countries.
• the plant which yields the yam.
• a sweet potato.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a plant having an edible root

Words related to YAMS

yam8

Words that contain YAMS

lyams10 cocoyams17

How to use YAMS in a sentence

• The names likewise of most of the cultivated plants, such as rice, yams, sugar-cane, cacao and indigo, are said to be Malay, as well as those for silver, copper, and tin.
• Food was very plentiful on this island, roots and yams being obtainable in great abundance.
• The silent guide bore on his shoulders a burden of yams rolled in a hammock, but it in no way interfered with the freedom of his movements.
• Numbers of hogs are reared, and some parts of the main, especially Barus, are supplied from hence with yams, beans, and poultry.
• What are Yams? The roots of a climbing plant growing in tropical climates.
• In times of scarcity, after their bread-fruit and yams are consumed, they have recourse to various roots, which grow without cultivation upon the mountains.
• Six or seven canoes had come off to us, before we anchored, bringing some small pigs and potatoes, and a good many yams and mats.
• Its chief vegetable produce is yams, if we may judge from what was brought to us by the natives.
• Then the yams, cut into pieces, were dropped in, more hot stones added to keep the water boiling, and when cooked, the yams were taken out.
• It began when the winter Rains failed almost entirely, and Ikki, the Porcupine, meeting Mowgli in a bamboo-thicket, told him that the wild yams were drying up.
• The former is merely a paste made of boiled yams, formed into balls of about one pound each.
• The black is a more elaborate preparation from the flour of yams.
• They then proceeded through large plantations of cotton, indigo, Indian corn, and yams, and over stony fields, till between ten and eleven, when they entered the town of Chouchou.
• At seven in the evening they settled themselves for the night, but found that they were exceedingly cramped up for want of room, occasioned by the yams being stowed badly.
• King Boy has not visited us to-day, though we have received the customary allowance of four yams from his women.
• They exchange their fish for yams, and thus the wants of the fishermen and the cultivators are both supplied.
• Several natives approached the latter gentleman, offering him yams in barter, but were careful not to come too near, so long as his men remained armed with muskets.
• There are seven or eight kinds of yams grown in India.

Similar words containing YAM without suffix s

yam8 lyam9 lyams10 yamen10 yampy15 yamun10 bayamo13 yamens11 yammer13 yamuns11 bayamos14 cocoyam16 yamalka16 yammers14 yampies14 yamulka16 cocoyams17 yamalkas17 yammered16 yammerer15 yamulkas17 polyamide17 polyamine16 polyamory19 pranayama16 yammerers16 yammering17 hyoscyamus23 polyamides18 polyamines17 pranayamas17 yammerings18 hyoscyamine24 polyamories18 polyamorous18 polyamorist18 hyoscyamines25 hyoscyamuses25 polyamorists19

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