10-letter words containing w, y
- hyperaware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- hyperpower — an extremely powerful state that dominates all other states in every sphere of activity
- in my view — You use in my view when you want to indicate that you are stating a personal opinion, which other people might not agree with.
- in the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- jacky howe — (formerly) a sleeveless flannel shirt worn by sheep shearers
- jayawijaya — a range in E central Irian Jaya, on New Guinea. Highest peak, Trikora, 15,584 feet (4750 meters).
- jaywalkers — Plural form of jaywalker.
- jaywalking — to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
- john wayne — Anthony ("Mad Anthony") 1745–96, American Revolutionary War general.
- johnny law — Andrew Bonar [bon-er] /ˈbɒn ər/ (Show IPA), 1858–1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922–23.
- johnny raw — a novice; new recruit
- jolly well — Jolly well is sometimes used to emphasize an opinion or intention, and to express annoyance or anger.
- jury wheel — a device, containing slips with the names of prospective jurors, that when spun mixes the names for random selection.
- key escrow — (security) A controversial arrangement where the keys needed to decrypt encrypted data must be held in escrow by a third party so that government agencies can obtain them to decrypt messages which they suspect to be relevant to national security.
- key worker — a social worker, mental health worker, or nursery nurse assigned to an individual case, patient, or child
- kidneywort — the navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having drooping yellowish-green flowers.
- kitty hawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
- larry wall — (person) A demigod, the author of Perl, patch, and rn. In the Perl README, he says, "I want you to know that I create nice things like this because it pleases the Author of my story. If this bothers you, then your notion of Authorship needs some revision. But you can use Perl anyway." E-mail: Larry Wall <[email protected]>.
- laugh away — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- lawn party — garden party.
- lawyerlike — Resembling a lawyer or some aspect of one.
- lay sb low — If a disease or illness lays you low, it makes you weak or ill.
- leftwardly — leftwards
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- lily-white — white as a lily: soft lily-white skin.
- lollywater — a sweet soft drink, especially one brightly colored.
- looyenwork — a physical therapy intended to release muscle fibre adhesions
- lousy with — infested with lice.
- loveworthy — worthy of being loved
- low comedy — comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.
- low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
- low-flying — Low-flying aircraft or birds are flying very close to the ground, or lower than normal.
- loweringly — In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
- lukewarmly — In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without extremeness.
- lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- mawlamyine — Moulmein.
- miles away — If you say that someone is miles away, you mean that they are unaware of what is happening around them because they are thinking about something else.
- mollymawks — Plural form of mollymawk.
- moneyworts — Plural form of moneywort.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- nameworthy — worthy of or deserving a name
- narrowbody — (aeronautics) An airliner capable of seating six or less passengers in a single row of economy seating, with one aisle.
- nearly new — Nearly new items are items for sale that have belonged to another person but have not been used much and are still in very good condition. A nearly new shop sells nearly new items.
- new albany — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- new comedy — Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.
- new jersey — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast. 7836 sq. mi. (20,295 sq. km). Capital: Trenton. Abbreviation: NJ (for use with zip code), N.J.
- new romney — a seaport town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- new year's — the year approaching or newly begun.
- new yorker — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- newark bay — a bay in NE New Jersey. 6 miles (10 km) long; 1 mile (1.6 km) wide.