14-letter words containing w, y
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
- on the way out — If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
- one-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
- one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
- one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
- out of the way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
- out-of-the-way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
- overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- pick one's way — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
- powdery mildew — any of various parasitic fungi of the ascomycete order Erysiphales, which produce a powderlike film of mycelium on the surface of host plants.
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
- property owner — sb who owns a building or land
- railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
- railway engine — a self-propelled engine used for drawing or pushing trains along railway tracks; locomotive
- railway police — the branch of the police force specializing in maintaining law and order and detecting crime on the railways
- railway porter — a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc at a railway station
- railway worker — railroad employee
- raise eyebrows — cause surprise
- richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- scenic railway — a railroad that carries its passengers on a brief tour of an amusement park, resort, etc.
- schwyzertutsch — any of the local dialects of German spoken in Switzerland.
- screw conveyor — a device for moving loose materials, consisting of a shaft with a broad, helically wound blade rotating in a tube or trough.
- secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
- sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
- sit-down money — social security benefits
- skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
- sleepaway camp — a camp providing facilities for teenagers to sleep away from home
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
- south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
- spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
- street railway — a company that operates streetcars or buses.
- take away from — detract
- take one's way — to go on a journey; travel
- teletypewriter — a telegraphic apparatus by which signals are sent by striking the letters and symbols of the keyboard of an instrument resembling a typewriter and are received by a similar instrument that automatically prints them in type corresponding to the keys struck. Abbreviation: TTY.
- ten years' war — a popular insurrection in Cuba (1868–78) against Spanish rule.
- the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- the top twenty — the twenty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
- the windy city — Chicago, Illinois
- there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.