12-letter words containing w, a, n, y
- owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
- punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
- railway line — railroad route
- renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- runaway star — a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
- towaway zone — See example at towaway.
- unrewardedly — in an unrewarding manner
- unroadworthy — not mechanically sound or suitable for use on the road
- unwatchfully — in an unwatchful manner
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- unwearyingly — in an unwearying manner
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- waitangi day — the national day of New Zealand (Feb 6), commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government. The treaty provided the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- wave-and-pay — relating to a payment system that uses RFID technology to allow a customer to pay for goods by passing a card in front of a sensor
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- winter-hardy — able to survive the effects of cold weather.
- woburn abbey — a mansion in Woburn in Bedfordshire: originally an abbey; rebuilt in the 17th century for the Dukes of Bedford, altered by Henry Holland in the 18th century; deer park landscaped by Humphrey Repton
- yellow avens — herb bennet.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- yukawa meson — a hypothetical elementary particle with finite rest mass, whose exchange between nucleons would account for the strong short-range forces between nucleons: subsequently identified as the pion.