13-letter words containing w, y
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- early warning — An early warning system warns people that something bad is likely to happen, for example that a machine is about to stop working, or that a country is being attacked.
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
- family jewels — a man's genitals
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
- flaminian way — an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
- get away with — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- go swimmingly — If you say that something is going swimmingly, you mean that everything is happening in a satisfactory way, without any problems.
- golden yellow — of yellow with a tinge of gold
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- happy warrior — a person who is undiscouraged by difficulties or opposition.
- hawkeye state — Iowa (used as a nickname).
- hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
- home row keys — home keys
- hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
- how-do-you-do — a greeting; salutation: She smiled and gave him a how-do-you-do fit for a king.
- howler monkey — Central American simian variety
- i'll show you — You can say 'I'll show you' to threaten or warn someone that you are going to make them admit that they are wrong.
- if i were you — You say 'if I were you' to someone when you are giving them advice.
- in harm's way — If someone is put in harm's way, they are caused to be in a dangerous situation.
- in the way of — similar to, like
- indecency law — the law relating to indecency
- indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
- industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- irish whiskey — any whiskey made in Ireland, characteristically a product of barley.
- jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
- know by heart — have memorized
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
- light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
- mallow family — the plant family Malvaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having palmately veined, lobed, or compound leaves, sticky juice, often showy five-petaled flowers with stamens united in a column, and fruit in the form of a capsule with several divisions, and including the cotton plant, hibiscus, hollyhock, mallow, okra, and rose of Sharon.
- mark my words — If you say 'mark my words' to someone, you are emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it.
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
- micro-brewery — A micro-brewery is a type of small brewery where beer is produced using traditional methods.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains