9-letter words containing w, a, y, s
- accessway — a path, route, etc., that provides access to a specific destination or property, as to a public beach or state park.
- alleyways — Plural form of alleyway.
- always-on — remaining available at all times
- anywheres — in, at, or to any place.
- armyworms — Plural form of armyworm.
- awesomely — causing or inducing awe; inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear: an awesome sight.
- busy-wait — (programming) To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- carraways — Plural form of carraway.
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- castaways — Plural form of castaway.
- causeways — Plural form of causeway.
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- colorways — Plural form of colorway.
- crossways — crosswise.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- entryways — Plural form of entryway.
- eyeshadow — A colored cosmetic, typically in powder form, applied to the eyelids or to the skin around the eyes to accentuate them.
- fadeaways — Plural form of fadeaway.
- fosse way — a Roman road in Britain between Lincoln and Exeter, with a fosse on each side
- giveaways — Plural form of giveaway.
- greenways — Plural form of greenway.
- guideways — Plural form of guideway.
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- hold sway — have influence
- 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.
- jawlensky — Alexej von [ah-le-ksey fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈkseɪ fən/ (Show IPA), 1864?–1941, German painter, born in Russia.
- lawlessly — In a lawless manner. Without constraint by law or moral code.
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- marrowsky — spoonerism
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- muley saw — a saw having a long, stiff blade that is not stretched in a gate, but whose motion is directed by clamps at each end mounted on guide rails.
- pass away — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- piss away — urine.
- rust away — When a metal object rusts away, it is gradually weakened and destroyed by rust.
- salt away — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- sassywood — (in Liberia) a trial by ordeal, such as being forced to drink poison
- say's law — the principle, propounded by Jean Baptiste Say, that the supply of goods is always matched by the demand for them.
- scallywag — scalawag.
- seawardly — in a seaward direction
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