13-letter words containing w, y
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- well-conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
- west by north — a point on the compass 11°15prime; north of west. Abbreviation: WbN.
- west by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of west. Abbreviation: WbS.
- west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
- what have you — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- what you will — whatever you like
- what's yours? — what would you like to drink?
- when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
- white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
- whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
- whydah (bird) — any of several chiefly brown-and-black, African passerine birds (family Ploceidae): the male has long, drooping tail feathers during the breeding season
- wibbly-wobbly — wobbly
- wife's equity — a wife's right to have provision made for her and her children out of her estate, without the aid of a court of equity, if her husband cannot obtain the funds
- wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
- willow family — the plant family Salicaceae, characterized by deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, hairy catkins of male and female flowers on separate plants, and capsular fruit, and including the aspen, cottonwood, poplar, and willow.
- willy wagtail — a large black-and-white bird, Rhipidura leucophrys, of Australia and New Guinea, having bristles around the upper bill and a long, fanlike tail.
- winter barley — barley that is planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer.
- winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- with impunity — unpunished
- wolffian body — the mesonephros.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
- woolly monkey — either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.
- woolly-headed — having hair of a woolly texture or appearance.
- woolly-minded — showing a vague or muddled way of thinking
- working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
- worldly goods — everything you own
- wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
- yellow enzyme — any of several yellow respiratory enzymes that are members of the flavoprotein group, found naturally as in yeast
- yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
- yellow jersey — (in the Tour de France) a yellow jersey worn by the overall leader
- yellow locust — black locust.
- yellow mombin — a tropical American tree, Spondias mombin, having yellowish-white flowers and yellow, oval, edible fruit.
- yellow poplar — tulip tree (def 1).
- yellow ribbon — a yellow-colored ribbon displayed as a symbol of solidarity with soldiers in combat, political hostages, etc.
- yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris
- yellow streak — a trait of cowardice in a person's character.
- yellowhammers — Plural form of yellowhammer.
- yellowishness — The property of having a slight or moderate shade of yellow, usually tinged with other colours.
- yellowthroats — Plural form of yellowthroat.
- you can't win — an expression of resignation after an unsuccessful attempt to overcome difficulties
- you know what — a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify