13-letter words containing a, y, w
- happy warrior — a person who is undiscouraged by difficulties or opposition.
- hawkeye state — Iowa (used as a nickname).
- in harm's way — If someone is put in harm's way, they are caused to be in a dangerous situation.
- in the way of — similar to, like
- indecency law — the law relating to indecency
- indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
- know by heart — have memorized
- knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
- light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
- lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
- mallow family — the plant family Malvaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having palmately veined, lobed, or compound leaves, sticky juice, often showy five-petaled flowers with stamens united in a column, and fruit in the form of a capsule with several divisions, and including the cotton plant, hibiscus, hollyhock, mallow, okra, and rose of Sharon.
- mark my words — If you say 'mark my words' to someone, you are emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it.
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- moseley's law — the observed law that the square root of the frequencies of lines in atomic x-ray spectra depends linearly on the atomic number of the emitting atom.
- naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- newbery award — an annual award for the most distinguished book for juveniles.
- norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
- of many words — talkative
- once and away — conclusively
- ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
- out one's way — in, to, or near one's neighborhood
- paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
- pay one's way — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- peg away (at) — to work steadily and persistently (at)
- permanent way — the roadbed and track of a railroad.
- play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
- play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
- playwrighting — the writing of plays
- proxy gateway — proxy server
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- ready-to-wear — clothing made in standard sizes; ready-made clothing.
- rotary harrow — a harrow with a number of turning wheels rimmed with spikes, used for various soil treatments.
- royal warrant — an authorization to a tradesman to supply goods to a royal household
- run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
- sanitary ware — plumbing fixtures, as sinks or toilet bowls, made of ceramic material or enameled metal.
- see one's way — to find it possible and be willing (to do something)
- send away for — order by post
- shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
- solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
- solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.