12-letter words containing l, y, w
- allowability — The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
- alloy wheels — wheels made from an steel alloy, usually of aluminium or magnesium, for improved properties such as reduced weight, better heat conductance and a shiny appearance
- angle of yaw — the acute angle between the longitudinal axis of an aircraft or spacecraft and a given reference direction, as viewed from above.
- barley water — Barley water is a drink made from barley. It is sometimes flavoured with orange or lemon.
- battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
- belt highway — beltway (def 1).
- bewilderedly — in a bewildered manner
- billy wilder — Billy (Samuel Wilder) 1906–2002, U.S. film director, producer, and writer; born in Austria.
- blow by blow — precisely detailed; describing every minute detail and step: a blow-by-blow account of the tennis match; a blow-by-blow report on the wedding ceremony.
- blow-by-blow — A blow-by-blow account of an event describes every stage of it in great detail.
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- chip jewelry — (jargon) A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry."
- city dweller — a resident or inhabitant of a city
- collywobbles — an upset stomach
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
- crumble away — disintegrate
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- dual highway — divided highway.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
- fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
- grey wagtail — a greyish species of wagtail, Motacilla cinerea, found in temperate regions
- grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- hollywoodish — of, relating to, or resembling Hollywood, Hollywoodians, or the products of Hollywood and the motion-picture industry.
- joy, william — William Joy
- junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
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