12-letter words containing w, a, y
- a dirty word — If you say that an expression is a dirty word in a particular group of people, you mean it refers to an idea that they strongly dislike or disagree with.
- allowability — The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
- alloy wheels — wheels made from an steel alloy, usually of aluminium or magnesium, for improved properties such as reduced weight, better heat conductance and a shiny appearance
- amboyna wood — the mottled, curled wood of an Asiatic, leguminous tree (Pterocarpus indicus), used in making furniture
- angle of yaw — the acute angle between the longitudinal axis of an aircraft or spacecraft and a given reference direction, as viewed from above.
- antisway bar — stabilizer bar.
- army cutworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Chorizagrotis auxiliaris, that is a pest of wheat and alfalfa in the Plains states.
- aykhona wena — an exclamation expressive of surprise, pain, pleasure, etc
- bargain away — to lose or renounce (freedom, rights, etc) in return for something valueless or of little value
- barley water — Barley water is a drink made from barley. It is sometimes flavoured with orange or lemon.
- baryta water — an aqueous solution of barium hydroxide, used chiefly as a reagent.
- battleworthy — capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle: a decline in the nation's battleworthy forces.
- belt highway — beltway (def 1).
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- carried away — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- carryforward — carry-over.
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
- companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
- company town — a town built by a company for its employees
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
- core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crumble away — disintegrate
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- dual highway — divided highway.
- dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
- early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
- edward abbey — Edward, 1927–89, U.S. novelist and nature writer.
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
- eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
- factory work — work in a factory
- far and away — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- gallery wire — perforated wire or metal stripping used to support or enhance a stone mounted in a ring.
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