yacht
noun /jɒt/
  /jɑːt/
 (North American English also sailboat)
- a large sailing boat, often also with an engine and a place to sleep on board, used for pleasure trips and racing enlarge image enlarge image- a yacht club/race
- a motor yacht
- a luxury yacht
 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- luxury
- private
- royal
- …
 - cruise on
- sail
- moor
- …
 - sail
- set sail
 - race
- club
 - aboard a/the yacht
- on a/the yacht
- on board a/the yacht
- …
 More Like This Silent lettersSilent letters- gnarled
- gnash
- gnat
- gnaw
- gnome
 - haute cuisine
- heir
- herb
- honour
- hors d’oeuvre
- hour
 - knack
- knee
- kneel
- knife
- knight
- knit
- knob
- knock
- knot
- know
- knuckle
 - psalm
- psephology
- psychic
- ptarmigan
- pterodactyl
- psychology
 - wrangle
- wrap
- wreath
- wreck
- wrench
- wrestle
- wriggle
- wring
- write
- wrong
 - bomb
- climb
- crumb
- doubt
- lamb
- limb
 - ascent
- fascinate
- muscle
- scene
- scissors
 - height
- right
- sleigh
- weight
 - align
- campaign
- design
- foreign
- malign
- reign
- unfeigned
 - balmy
- calm
- calf
- half
- yolk
 - autumn
- column
- condemn
- damn
- hymn
- solemn
 - bristle
- fasten
- listen
- mortgage
- soften
- thistle
- wrestle
 - biscuit
- build
- circuit
- disguise
- guilty
- league
- rogue
- vague
 - yacht
 - answer
- sword
- two
 Word Originmid 16th cent.: from early modern Dutch jaghte, from jaghtschip ‘fast pirate ship’, from jag(h)t ‘hunting’ + schip ‘ship’.
