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- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.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 egypt — Arab 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.