10-letter words containing l, a, w, y
- railwayman — male railway worker
- ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- sea lawyer — a sailor inclined to question or complain about the orders given.
- sewability — the ability to be sewn or stitched
- sleep away — to spend in sleeping; sleep during
- sleep-away — of or relating to a place at which one sleeps away from home: sleep-away camp.
- smile away — to drive away or get rid of by a smile or smiling
- trail away — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- twangingly — in a twanging manner
- unavowedly — in an unavowed or concealed manner
- unlawfully — not lawful; contrary to law; illegal.
- unswayable — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
- untowardly — in an untoward manner
- walvis bay — an inlet of the S Atlantic Ocean, on the coast of Namibia, in SW Africa.
- wamblingly — in a wambling manner
- warble fly — any of several stout, woolly flies of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which produce warbles in cattle and other animals.
- warblingly — in a warbling manner
- wastefully — In a wasteful manner.
- watchfully — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- water lily — any of various aquatic plants of the genus Nymphaea, species of which have large, disklike, floating leaves and showy flowers, especially N. odorata, of America, or N. alba, of Europe. Compare water lily family.
- watercycle — any of various small watercraft that are moved by working pedals or treadles
- wavelessly — (of water) Without being disturbed by waves; tranquilly.
- waveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- wax myrtle — an aromatic shrub, Myrica cerifera, of the southeastern U.S., bearing small berries coated with wax that is sometimes used in making candles.
- wearyingly — In a wearying way.
- westwardly — having a westward direction or situation: the westwardly migration of the 1850s.
- while away — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
- white lady — a cocktail consisting of gin, Cointreau, and lemon juice
- wild pansy — any uncultivated or wild form of the common pansy, Viola tricolor.
- willywacks — willowwacks.
- winstanley — Gerrard. ?1609–60, English radical; leader of the Diggers (1649–50) and author of the pamphlet The Law of Freedom in a Platform (1652)
- womanfully — in a manner full of womanly spirit: She struggled womanfully to complete the task.
- womanishly — In a womanish way.
- woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
- wrathfully — very angry; ireful; full of wrath: They trembled before the wrathful queen.
- yellow pad — a scratch pad of yellow, lined paper.
- yellow sea — an arm of the Pacific N of the East China Sea, between China and Korea.
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — 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.
- yellowhead — Chaetodon xanthocephalus, the yellowhead butterflyfish.
- yellowtail — a game fish, Seriola lalandei, of California.
- yellowware — a type of pottery made from yellowish clay and finished with a transparent, yellow-colored glaze.