14-letter words containing w, y
- get jiggy with — to have sexual relations with
- go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
- grow away from — lose attachment
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- hammer away at — persist
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
- homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
- honeycomb work — stalactite work.
- honeydew melon — a variety of the winter melon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a smooth, pale-green rind and sweet, juicy, light-green flesh.
- how do you do? — a conventional formula when being introduced
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
- in a small way — slightly, somewhat
- just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
- known quantity — Mathematics. a quantity whose value is given: in algebra, frequently represented by a letter from the first part of the alphabet, as a, b, or c.
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- lay waste (to) — to destroy; devastate; make desolate
- leland hayward — Leland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
- linsey-woolsey — a coarse fabric woven from linen warp, or sometimes cotton, and coarse wool filling.
- lose one's way — If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere.
- low technology — any technology utilizing equipment and production techniques that are relatively unsophisticated (opposed to high technology).
- make away with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- marine railway — a railway having a rolling cradle for hauling ships out of water onto land and returning them.
- maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- midway islands — an atoll in the central Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 miles) northwest of Honolulu: annexed by the US in 1867: scene of a decisive battle (June, 1942), in which the US combined fleets destroyed Japan's carrier fleet. Pop: 40 (2013 est). Area: 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
- myrtle warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
- new forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
- new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
- new model army — the army established in 1645 during the Civil War by the English parliamentarians, which exercised considerable political power under Cromwell
- new year's day — January 1, celebrated as a holiday in many countries.
- new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
- new york state — New York (def 1).
- north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.