13-letter words containing w, a, n, y
- tansy ragwort — a European composite plant, Senecio jacobaea, naturalized in North America, having numerous yellow flowers.
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- tyne and wear — a metropolitan county in N England.
- unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
- warranty deed — a deed containing a covenant of warranty.
- waygoing crop — away-going crop.
- weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
- wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
- winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- wolffian body — the mesonephros.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
- wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
- you can't win — an expression of resignation after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome difficulties
- you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify