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11-letter words containing w, o, y, l

  • unknowingly — ignorant or unaware: unknowing aid to the enemy.
  • vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
  • vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
  • way of life — lifestyle
  • wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
  • welcomingly — In a welcoming manner.
  • welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
  • werewolfery — the condition of being a werewolf
  • wholesomely — In a wholesome manner.
  • william joy — (person)   (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
  • wonderfully — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
  • wonderingly — In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
  • wookey hole — a village in SW England, in Somerset, near Wells: noted for the nearby limestone cave in which prehistoric remains have been found
  • woolly bear — the caterpillar of any of several moths, as a tiger moth, having a dense coat of woolly hairs.
  • woolly worm — woolly bear.
  • workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
  • world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
  • worrisomely — In a worrisome way.
  • worthlessly — In a worthless manner.
  • yellow bile — one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing anger; choler.
  • yellow book — 1.   (publication)   Yellow Book, Jargon. 2. Yellow Book CD-ROM.
  • yellow cake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
  • yellow card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
  • yellow flag — Nautical. quarantine flag.
  • yellow hats — the sect of Tibetan Buddhist monks established after religious reforms in the 14th century.
  • yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
  • yellow line — A yellow line is a narrow yellow line painted at the edge of a road to warn drivers that parking is not allowed there, or is only allowed at certain times.
  • yellow pine — any of several North American pines yielding a strong, yellowish wood.
  • yellow race — the Mongoloid group of mankind
  • yellow rain — small, powdery yellow deposits containing the fungal toxin tricothecene, found on leaves and other surfaces in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and alleged by some to be a chemical weapon disseminated by air but claimed by others to be pollen-containing bee excrement contaminated by fungus.
  • yellow rust — stripe rust.
  • yellow soap — old-fashioned all-purpose soap
  • yellow spot — Ophthalmology. macula (def 2b).
  • yellow-card — Soccer. a yellow card shown by the referee to a player being cautioned for a violation.
  • yellowbelly — Slang. a person who is without courage, fortitude, or nerve; coward.
  • yellowcress — Rorippa palustris, a flowering plant in the mustard family.
  • yellowfinch — any of several tropical American finches of the genus Sicalis, most of which are bright yellow in color.
  • yellowheads — Plural form of yellowhead.
  • yellowknife — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
  • yellowshins — Yellowlegs.
  • yellowstone — a river flowing from NW Wyoming through Yellowstone Lake and NE through Montana into the Missouri River in W North Dakota. 671 miles (1080 km) long.
  • yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.
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