14-letter words containing w, a, y, t
- take away from — detract
- take one's way — to go on a journey; travel
- ten years' war — a popular insurrection in Cuba (1868–78) against Spanish rule.
- the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
- to wax lyrical — If you say that someone, for example, waxes lyrical or waxes indignant about a subject, you mean that they talk about it in an enthusiastic or indignant way.
- to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- two-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
- two-way street — an arrangement or a situation involving reciprocal obligation or mutual action
- unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- walk away with — escape
- wall pellitory — pellitory (sense 1)
- warrantability — The quality of being warrantable.
- water hyacinth — a floating aquatic plant, Eichornia crassipes, of tropical lakes and rivers, that grows so prolifically it often hinders the passage of boats.
- wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
- weatherability — the property of a material that permits it to endure or resist exposure to the weather.
- well and truly — If you say that something is well and truly finished, gone, or done, you are emphasizing that it is completely finished or gone, or thoroughly done.
- west lafayette — a city in central Indiana: suburb of Lafayette.
- whaddayacallit — A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember.
- white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
- whitewall tyre — a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls
- wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- with an eye to — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- woolly mammoth — a large extinct elephant
- wyandotte cave — a cave in S Indiana: one of the most extensive in the U.S., with 23 miles (37 km) of passages.
- yeddo hawthorn — a Japanese shrub, Raphiolepis umbellata, of the rose family, having leathery leaves and dense, hairy clusters of fragrant white flowers.
- yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
- yellow wagtail — Motacilla flava; a small passerine
- yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.
- yesterday week — a week yesterday; a week ago from yesterday