9-letter words containing r, w, y
- frowardly — In a froward manner.
- garryowen — (rugby union) A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
- gay power — the organized political influence exerted by homosexuals as a group, especially to ensure equal rights in employment, housing, etc.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- gray wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- graywater — dirty water from sinks, showers, bathtubs, washing machines, and the like, that can be recycled, as for use in flushing toilets.
- greenaway — Kate (Catherine) 1846–1901, English painter and author and illustrator of children's books.
- greenways — Plural form of greenway.
- grey-wave — denoting a company or an investment that is potentially profitable but is unlikely to fulfil expectations before the investor has grey hair
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greywater — Alternative spelling of gray water.
- growingly — becoming greater in quantity, size, extent, or intensity: growing discontent among industrial workers.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- holy writ — the Scriptures.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hornywink — a lapwing
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- irish yew — a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having upright branches and dark green foliage with color variations.
- irrawaddy — a river flowing S through Burma (Myanmar) to the Bay of Bengal. 1250 miles (2015 km) long.
- ivorywood — the yellowish-white wood of an Australian tree, Siphonodon australe, used for engraving, inlaying, and turnery
- jayhawker — a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- jewellery — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- jurywomen — Plural form of jurywoman.
- keyworker — The keyworker for a particular group of clients or patients is the person who works with them most closely and has most responsibility for them.
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
- marrowsky — spoonerism
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- midwifery — the technique or practice of a midwife.
- moneywort — a creeping plant, Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, having roundish leaves and solitary yellow flowers.
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- nonlawyer — a person who is not a lawyer
- outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
- overweary — excessively weary; tired out.
- pay award — a bonus or increase in pay or salary
- pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
- renewably — in a renewable fashion, in such a way as to be renewable
- renewedly — in a renewed fashion
- right-way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.