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7-letter words containing a, y, w

  • roadway — the land over which a road is built; a road together with the land at its edge.
  • rollway — a place on which things are rolled or moved on rollers.
  • ropeway — tramway (def 4).
  • runaway — a person who runs away; fugitive; deserter.
  • sallowy — full of sallows: a sallowy glade.
  • scrawly — written or drawn awkwardly or carelessly.
  • scrawny — excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.
  • shadowy — resembling a shadow in faintness, slightness, etc.: shadowy outlines.
  • shipway — the structure that supports a ship being built.
  • sideway — a byway.
  • skagway — a town in SE Alaska, near the famous White and Chilkoot passes to the Klondike gold fields: railway terminus.
  • skidway — a road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects.
  • skywalk — skybridge (def 1).
  • skyward — Also, skywards. toward the sky.
  • slipway — (in a shipyard) the area sloping toward the water, on which the ways are located.
  • someway — in some way; somehow.
  • sprawly — tending to sprawl; straggly: The colt's legs were long and sprawly.
  • spurway — a path used by horse riders
  • spyware — Computers. software that is installed surreptitiously and gathers information about an Internet user's browsing habits, intercepts the user's personal data, etc., transmitting this information to a third party: a parent's use of spyware to monitor a child's online activities.
  • squawky — unpleasantly discordant or harsh in sound; cacophonous.
  • swarthy — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • tallowy — resembling tallow in consistency, color, etc.; fatty: a tallowy mass of moistened powder; tallowy skin.
  • taxiway — any surface area of an airport used for taxiing airplanes to and from a runway, parking apron, terminal, etc.
  • the way — so that
  • thruway — a limited-access toll highway providing a means of direct transportation between distant areas for high-speed automobile traffic.
  • tideway — a channel in which a tidal current runs.
  • tollway — toll road.
  • towaway — an act or instance of towing away a vehicle that has been illegally parked.
  • tramway — a crude railroad of wooden rails or of wooden rails capped with metal treads.
  • twaddly — of, containing, or relating to twaddle
  • twankay — a Chinese green tea
  • two-way — providing for or allowing movement in opposite directions, or both to and from a place: two-way traffic.
  • tynwald — the legislature of the Isle of Man, consisting of the lieutenant governor, the council, and the House of Keys.
  • unwayed — having no routes, ways, or paths
  • unweary — physically or mentally exhausted by hard work, exertion, strain, etc.; fatigued; tired: weary eyes; a weary brain.
  • wackily — In a way or to an extent that is wacky.
  • waggery — the action, spirit, or language of a wag; roguish or droll humor: the waggery of Shakespeare's clowns.
  • walkway — any passage for walking, especially one connecting the various areas of a ship, factory, park, etc.
  • wallaby — any of various small and medium-sized kangaroos of the genera Macropus, Thylogale, Petrogale, etc., some of which are no larger than rabbits: several species are endangered.
  • walleye — Also called walleyed pike, jack salmon. a large game fish, Stizostedion vitreum, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of northeastern North America; pikeperch.
  • wankery — (British, slang, vulgar) Unnecessary or pretentious noodling (messing around).
  • war cry — a cry, word, phrase, etc., shouted in charging or in rallying to attack; battle cry.
  • wary of — careful of
  • washday — the day set apart in a household for washing clothes: Monday is always washday at our house.
  • washery — a plant at a mine where water or other liquid is used to remove dirt from a mineral, esp coal
  • way car — caboose.
  • way-out — advanced in style or technique: way-out jazz.
  • waybill — a list of goods sent by a common carrier, as a railroad, with shipping directions.
  • wayfare — (archaic) Travel, journeying.
  • waygone — travel-weary
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