13-letter words containing w, y
- academy award — any of the annual awards for artistic and technical achievement given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- admiralty law — maritime law.
- alcan highway — Alaska Highway
- all very well — You use all very well to suggest that you do not really approve of something or you think that it is unreasonable.
- along the way — If something happens on the way or along the way, it happens during the course of a particular event or process.
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- anti-sway bar — antiroll bar
- anywhere from — any quantity, time, degree, etc, above a specified limit
- as is the way — You can use as is the way to say that a particular situation or example of behaviour is typical and you would not expect it to be different.
- ash wednesday — Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent.
- assemblywoman — In the United States, an assemblywoman is a female elected member of an assembly of people who make decisions and laws.
- assemblywomen — Plural form of assemblywoman.
- aster yellows — a dwarfing and yellowing of asters and various other plants, caused by a mycoplasma transmitted by a leafhopper.
- barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
- bewilderingly — extremely confusing: a bewildering schedule of events.
- big gray wall — (jargon) What faces a VMS user searching for documentation. A full VMS kit comes on a pallet, the documentation taking up around 15 feet of shelf space before the addition of layered products such as compilers, databases, multi-vendor networking, and programming tools. Recent (since VMS version 5) DEC documentation comes with grey binders; under VMS version 4 the binders were orange and under version 3 they were blue. Often contracted to "Gray Wall".
- binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
- bittersweetly — in a bittersweet manner
- blow sky-high — to destroy completely
- bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
- brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
- bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- by a long way — You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind.
- cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
- cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
- canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
- caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
- cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
- cassel yellow — a lemon-yellow color.
- casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
- cavalry twill — a strong woollen twill fabric used for trousers, etc
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
- chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- chimney wheel — smokejack.
- chrome yellow — any yellow pigment consisting of lead chromate mixed with lead sulphate
- cobalt yellow — aureolin.
- come what may — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- company woman — a female employee whose allegiance to her employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- cowboy outfit — an outfit consisting of a cowboy hat, fringed waistcoat, trousers, scarf etc, worn either by children or adults
- creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- cut-away coat — Also called cutaway coat. a man's formal daytime coat having the front portion of the skirt cut away from the waist so as to curve or slope to the tails at the back.
- dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
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