11-letter words containing a, y, w, o
- rotary plow — a tined auger mounted on a horizontal power-driven shaft, for pulverizing unplowed soil preparatory to planting.
- rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
- shadow play — a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- shanty town — ghetto, slum
- smooth away — to remove (difficulties, obstacles, etc.)
- southwardly — toward the south
- szymanowski — Karol [kah-rawl] /ˈkɑ rɔl/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1937, Polish composer.
- tally-woman — a mistress
- thankworthy — deserving gratitude.
- through way — a way that traffic or vehicles can pass through
- to give way — If an object that is supporting something gives way, it breaks or collapses, so that it can no longer support that thing.
- two a penny — Things that are said to be two a penny or ten a penny are not valuable or interesting because they are very common and easy to find.
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- water poppy — a Brazilian, aquatic plant, Hydrocleys nymphoides, having yellow, poppylike flowers.
- wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.
- way of life — lifestyle
- way station — a station intermediate between principal stations, as on a railroad.
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- william joy — (person) (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
- woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
- worry beads — a string of beads manipulated to relieve worry and tension.
- yachtswoman — a woman who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
- yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
- yellow cake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellow card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
- yellow flag — Nautical. quarantine flag.
- yellow hats — the sect of Tibetan Buddhist monks established after religious reforms in the 14th century.
- yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
- yellow race — the Mongoloid group of mankind
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
- yellow-card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
- yellowheads — Plural form of yellowhead.
- yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.