16-letter words containing r, w, y
- two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
- two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
- utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
- voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- water lily tulip — a showy tulip, Tulipa kaufmanniana, of Turkestan, having spreading, white or pale-yellow flowers with yellow centers streaked with red.
- waterleaf family — the plant family Hydrophyllaceae, characterized by usually hairy herbaceous plants having lobed, divided, or compound leaves, five-parted blue or white flowers, and capsular fruit, and including baby-blue-eyes, phacelia, and waterleaf.
- way of the cross — stations of the cross.
- way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
- weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
- welfare payments — government benefits
- white water lily — any water lily of the genus Nymphaea, especially N. odorata, having fragrant, white flowers.
- white-eyed vireo — a vireo, Vireo griseus, of eastern North America, having olive, yellow, and white plumage, a yellow ring around each eye, and white irises.
- white-haired boy — a favourite; darling
- whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
- windows registry — (operating system) The database used by Microsoft Windows 95 and later to store all sorts of configuration information such as which program should be used to open a .doc file, DLL registration information, application-specific settings and much more. The Registry is stored in .dat files, one in the user's profile containing their per-user settings and one in the Windows directory containing settings that are global to all users. These are loaded into memory at login. The loaded data appears as a tree with five main branches: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_USERS, HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT defines file types and actions, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is an alias for one of the sub-trees of HKEY_USERS and contains user settings that override the global defaults in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The branches of the tree are called "keys" and are identified by paths like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. Any node in the tree can have zero or more "values" which are actually bindings of a name and a value, e.g. "Logon User Name" = "Denis". The value can be of type string, binary, dword (long integer), multi-string value or expandable string value. Windows includes a Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
- without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner
- worcester oyster — a drink consisting of raw unbeaten egg, Worcester sauce, salt, and pepper: a supposed cure for a hangover
- worth your while — If an action or activity is worth someone's while, it will be helpful, useful, or enjoyable for them if they do it, even though it requires some effort.
- yellow archangel — a Eurasian herbaceous plant (Lamiastrum luteum) that has yellow helmet-shaped flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- yellow pikeperch — the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
- yellow pimpernel — Lysimachia nemorum
- yellow underwing — any of several species of noctuid moths (Noctua and Anarta species), the hind wings of which are yellow with a black bar