11-letter words containing w, a, l, y
- rotary plow — a tined auger mounted on a horizontal power-driven shaft, for pulverizing unplowed soil preparatory to planting.
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- shadow play — a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
- southwardly — toward the south
- superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
- tally-woman — a mistress
- the beltway — Washington, D.C., esp. as regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics: so called from the expressway around the District of Columbia & nearby areas
- the tynwald — the Parliament of the Isle of Man, consisting of the crown, lieutenant governor, House of Keys, and legislative council
- thwartingly — in a thwarting manner; obstructingly
- twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
- unweariably — in an unweariable manner
- valley wind — a wind that ascends a mountain valley during the day.
- walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
- walkability — capable of being traveled, crossed, or covered by walking: a walkable road; a walkable distance.
- walky-talky — walkie-talkie.
- wall system — a modular system of shelves, some of which may be enclosed by doors, either mounted on a wall or arranged in freestanding units, for holding books, bric-a-brac, etc., and sometimes including such features as a drop-leaf desk or specially designed storage space, as to accommodate records or electronic equipment.
- walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
- wanderingly — In a way that wanders.
- warrantably — In a way that is justified; reasonably.
- washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
- water cycle — the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphere as water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, and ultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
- way of life — lifestyle
- wearability — the durability of clothing under normal wear.
- wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- weldability — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- well-played — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- wensleydale — a rich, medium-hard, white cheese with blue veins, somewhat strong in flavor.
- wesleyanism — the evangelical principles taught by John Wesley; Methodism.
- wettability — the condition of being wettable.
- whigmaleery — whigmaleerie.
- whimsically — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
- whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
- william joy — (person) (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
- winnability — a capacity for winning or being won
- woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
- yawl-rigged — rigged in the manner of a yawl.
- yellow cake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellow card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
- yellow flag — Nautical. quarantine flag.
- yellow hats — the sect of Tibetan Buddhist monks established after religious reforms in the 14th century.
- yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
- yellow race — the Mongoloid group of mankind
- yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
- yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
- yellow-card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
- yellowheads — Plural form of yellowhead.
- yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.