11-letter words containing w, y
- wild celery — tape grass.
- wild turkey — the ancestral species of the domesticated turkey. Compare turkey (def 1).
- 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.
- willy-nilly — in a disorganized or unplanned manner; sloppily.
- willy-willy — a severe tropical cyclone.
- wind energy — wind power.
- windbaggery — Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- winnability — a capacity for winning or being won
- winterberry — any of several North American hollies of the genus Ilex, having red berries that are persistent through the winter.
- winterishly — In a way that is characteristic of winter.
- wire agency — a business organization that gathers news, news photos, the latest stock-market prices, etc., for distribution, usually by teletypewriter, to its subscribers, especially newspapers: so called from the original transmission of news by telegraph wire.
- wishy-washy — lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.
- wither away — weaken and die
- witheringly — to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
- wonderberry — the black, edible fruit of an improved garden variety of the black nightshade.
- wonderfully — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- wonderingly — In a wondering manner; with wonderment.
- wood betony — the betony, Stachys officinalis.
- 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.
- working day — daytime hours occupied by work
- working-day — workaday; everyday.
- world-weary — weary of the world; bored with existence, material pleasures, etc.
- worrisomely — In a worrisome way.
- worry beads — a string of beads manipulated to relieve worry and tension.
- worthlessly — In a worthless manner.
- wrenchingly — In a wrenching manner; with a sudden jerk or emotional shock.
- yachtswoman — a woman who owns or sails a yacht, or who is devoted to yachting.
- yachtswomen — Irregular plural form of yachtswoman.
- yawl-rigged — rigged in the manner of a yawl.
- 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.