15-letter words containing a, w, y
- outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
- play havoc with — bring chaos to
- primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
- primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- queen's highway — king's highway.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- railway journey — a journey made by railway train
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- railway station — train stop, railroad station
- royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
- saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
- say a few words — to give a brief speech
- snowy mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
- strawberry tree — an evergreen shrub or tree, Arbutus unedo, of the heath family, native to southern Europe, bearing a scarlet, strawberrylike fruit.
- sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- swiss army code — (programming, humour) Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
- take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
- to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
- to lead the way — If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go.
- tweet you later — (on the Twitter website) goodbye; see you later
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- viewing gallery — an area in a building or outside for viewing an activity, the surrounding scenery, etc
- walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
- walleye pollock — a cod, Theragra chalcogramma, ranging the northern Pacific, that is related to and resembles the pollock.
- walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
- washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.
- water authority — an official body which is responsible for providing water
- water pennywort — any of numerous perennial herbs of the genus Hydrocotyle, of the parsley family, having rounded leaves and living in water or marshy places.
- well trajectory — The well trajectory is the direction in which the well is drilled.
- whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
- whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
- wild and woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
- wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
- wild-and-woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
- winning gallery — a winning opening on the hazard side, below the penthouse and farthest from the dedans. Compare dedans (def 1), grille (def 5).