8-letter words containing a, y, w
- lay away — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lay down — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- laywoman — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- lockaway — an investment intended to be held for a relatively long time
- longways — longwise.
- make way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- may wine — a punch consisting typically of Alsatian, Moselle, or Rhine wine, flavored with woodruff.
- mayweeds — Plural form of mayweed.
- motorway — an expressway.
- mulloway — a large Australian saltwater fish, Sciaena antarctica. regarded as a culinary delicacy.
- narrowly — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- new year — New Year's Day.
- newslady — A newswoman.
- neyagawa — a city in S Honshu, Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- nottaway — a river in SW Quebec, Canada, flowing NW to James Bay. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- nottoway — a river in S Virginia, flowing SE to the Blackwater River at the North Carolina border. 170 miles (274 km) long.
- nowadays — at the present day; in these times: Few people do their laundry by hand nowadays.
- onwardly — moving forward; advancing
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- oversway — to overrule
- overwary — excessively wary
- pandowdy — apple pandowdy.
- part way — Part way means part of the way or partly.
- part-way — at or to a part of the way or distance: Shall I walk you partway? I'm already partway home.
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- playdown — a play-off.
- playwear — playclothes.
- put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- ridgeway — a road or track along a ridge, esp one of great antiquity
- riverway — the part of a river that boats can travel on, or the route or course of a river
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- rollaway — designed to be rolled out of the way or out of sight when not in use: rollaway bed.
- rot away — decay
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- royal we — we (def 5).
- run away — 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.
- ryotwari — (in India) a system of land tenure in which land taxes are paid to the state
- sawdusty — filled with or suggesting sawdust.
- say what — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- say when — to state when an action is to be stopped or begun, as when someone is pouring a drink
- show day — (in Australia) a public holiday in a state on the date of its annual agricultural and industrial show
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- side-way — a byway.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- sky wave — a radio wave propagated upward from earth, whether reflected by the ionosphere or not.
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.