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11-letter words containing w, y

  • heavyweight — heavy in weight.
  • henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
  • high yellow — a term used to refer to a light-skinned black person.
  • hollow-eyed — having sunken eyes.
  • holy willie — a person who is hypocritically pious
  • honey wagon — a wagon or truck for collecting and carrying excrement or manure.
  • honey-sweet — sweet as honey.
  • housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
  • housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
  • hyper-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
  • if you want — as you please
  • ivory tower — a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower.
  • ivory-white — of a creamy or yellowish white in color.
  • iykwimaityd — if you know what I mean and I think you do
  • jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
  • jayawardene — Junius Richard. 1906–96, Sri Lankan statesman; prime minister (1977–78) and first president of Sri Lanka (1978–89)
  • jewelry box — case for valuable accessories
  • journeywork — the work of a journeyman.
  • keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
  • kidney worm — any of various large nematodes parasitic in the kidneys, especially Stephanurus dentatus, found in pigs.
  • kinyarwanda — Ruanda (def 2).
  • knowability — capable of being known.
  • laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
  • law faculty — the department or division of a university concerned with teaching law
  • law society — association of lawyers
  • lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
  • lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
  • lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
  • low-country — Often, Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.
  • low-density — having a low concentration.
  • low-quality — substandard; of inferior quality: It’s hard to make a delicious dish when you start with low-quality ingredients. Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.
  • lower egypt — Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
  • malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
  • mammy wagon — a W African vehicle built on a lorry chassis, capable of carrying both passengers and goods
  • mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
  • may as well — If you say that something, usually something bad, might as well be true or may as well be true, you mean that the situation is the same or almost the same as if it were true.
  • meadow lily — Canada lily.
  • merry widow — a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless brassiere and short corset with attached garters.
  • milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
  • money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
  • money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
  • mu'awiyah i — ?602–680 ad, first caliph (661–80) of the Omayyad dynasty of Damascus; regarded as having secularized the caliphate
  • nay pyi taw — the official capital of Myanmar (Burma), built in the centre of the country near Pyinmana in 2005–2006, and superseding Yangon (Rangoon) for main government functions. Pop: officially approaching 1 000 000 in 2007
  • new biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • new country — a style of country music that emerged in the late 1980s characterized by a more contemporary sound and down-to-earth rather than sentimental lyrics
  • new economy — the postindustrial world economy based on internet trading and advanced technology
  • new harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825.
  • new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
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