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11-letter words containing r, w, y

  • everywhence — from all directions
  • everywheres — (nonstandard) Everywhere.
  • expressways — Plural form of expressway.
  • eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
  • faithworthy — worthy of faith, trustworthy
  • farawayness — the state of being faraway
  • fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
  • fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
  • forty winks — a short nap.
  • four-by-two — a piece of timber with a cross section that measures 4 inches by 2 inches
  • getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
  • gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
  • greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
  • grey willow — a species of willow, Salix cinerea, with greenish-grey catkins
  • gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
  • harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
  • heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
  • henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
  • housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
  • hyper-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
  • ivory tower — a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower.
  • ivory-white — of a creamy or yellowish white in color.
  • jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
  • jayawardene — Junius Richard. 1906–96, Sri Lankan statesman; prime minister (1977–78) and first president of Sri Lanka (1978–89)
  • jewelry box — case for valuable accessories
  • journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
  • kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
  • kinyarwanda — Ruanda (def 2).
  • laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
  • lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
  • low-country — Often, Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.
  • lower egyptArab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
  • mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
  • merry widow — a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless brassiere and short corset with attached garters.
  • money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
  • new country — a style of country music that emerged in the late 1980s characterized by a more contemporary sound and down-to-earth rather than sentimental lyrics
  • new harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825.
  • new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
  • newburyport — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • northwardly — Northwards, towards the north.
  • norway pine — red pine.
  • otherworldy — With a quality unlike those normal to everyday life, or outside typical human experience.
  • oyster stew — a stew containing oysters
  • oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • part way up — some way towards the summit
  • playwriting — the art or technique of writing theatrical plays; the work or profession of a playwright.
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