8-letter words containing w, y, l
- alleyway — An alleyway is the same as an alley.
- avowably — in an avowable manner; not secret or hidden
- avowedly — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- balywick — Alternative form of bailiwick.
- biweekly — A biweekly event or publication happens or appears once every two weeks.
- blow fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
- blow-dry — If you blow-dry your hair, you dry it with a hairdryer, often to give it a particular style.
- blow-fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
- bowingly — in a curved manner
- bulawayo — a city in SW Zimbabwe founded (1893) on the site of the kraal of Lobengula, the last Matabele king; the country's main industrial centre. Pop: 693 000 (2005 est)
- bye-blow — by-blow (def 2).
- cableway — a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers
- calloway — Cab(ell) 1907–1994, U.S. jazz bandleader and singer.
- cat yawl — a yawl having the mainmast close to the stem and the after mast on the counter.
- clayware — pottery
- clearway — a stretch of road on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- clownery — clownish behavior.
- colorway — (arts) The scheme of two or more colors in which a design is available. It is often used to describe variegated or ombre (shades of one color) print yarns, fabric, or thread. It can also be applied to apparel, to wallpaper and other interior design motifs, and to specifications for printed materials such as magazines or newspapers.
- cow lily — spatterdock.
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- crawlway — a low passageway in a cave or mine that can only be negotiated by crawling
- cry wolf — If someone cries wolf, they say that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe them when there really is a problem.
- cycleway — A cycleway is a road, route, or path for cyclists.
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- downplay — to treat or speak of (something) so as to reduce emphasis on its importance, value, strength, etc.: The press has downplayed the president's role in the negotiations.
- drowsily — half-asleep; sleepy.
- dry well — a drainage pit lined with loose stonework for the leaching of liquid wastes.
- dry-wall — to construct or renovate with dry wall: to dry-wall the interior of a house.
- drywalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drywall.
- fallaway — a shot in basketball made while moving away from the basket
- fellowly — sociable or friendly.
- flatways — with the flat side, rather than the edge, foremost or in contact.
- floodway — the channel and adjacent shore areas under water during a flood, especially as determined for a flood of a given height.
- fly swat — fly swatter.
- flyblown — covered with flyblows: flyblown meat.
- flyblows — the eggs or young larvae of a blowfly, deposited on meat, paper, etc
- flywheel — a heavy disk or wheel rotating on a shaft so that its momentum gives almost uniform rotational speed to the shaft and to all connected machinery.
- flywhisk — a device for brushing away flies, often made of horsehair.
- foldaway — designed to be folded out of the way when not in use: a foldaway bed.
- folkways — The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
- frowzily — in a frowzy or unkempt manner
- galloway — a historic region in SW Scotland.
- gollywog — Alternative form of golliwog.
- grey owl — Grey Owl, original name Archibald Belaney (1888–1938). Canadian writer and conservationist, born in England; adopted Native American identity
- growlery — a place to retreat to, alone, when ill-humoured
- hallways — Plural form of hallway.
- hollowly — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- holy cow — astonishment
- holy war — a war waged for what is supposed or proclaimed to be a holy purpose, as the defense of faith.
- inwardly — in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally.
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