6-letter words containing w, y
- gowany — (Scotland) Covered with daisies.
- growly — resembling a growl in pitch and harshness: This cold has made my voice growly.
- hawkey — Obsolete form of hockey.
- haymow — hay stored in a barn.
- jetway — A portable bridge put against an aircraft door to allow passengers to embark or disembark.
- keyway — Machinery. a groove in a shaft, the hub of a wheel, etc., for receiving part of a key holding it to another part.
- lawyer — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- leeway — extra time, space, materials, or the like, within which to operate; margin: With ten minutes' leeway we can catch the train.
- lewdly — inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
- logway — gangway (def 7).
- lowboy — a low chest of drawers on short legs, resembling the lower part of a highboy.
- lowery — dark and gloomy; threatening: a lowery sky.
- lowkey — Alternative form of low key.
- manway — a passage in a mine wide enough for a single person.
- mayhew — Jonathan, 1720–66, American Congregational clergyman.
- medway — a river in SE England, flowing through Kent and the Medway towns (Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham) to the Thames estuary. Length: 110 km (70 miles)
- midway — several U.S. islets in the N Pacific, about 1300 miles (2095 km) NW of Hawaii: Japanese defeated in a naval battle June, 1942; 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- misway — (obsolete) A wrong way.
- no way — refusal
- no-way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- norway — Norwegian Norge. a kingdom in N Europe, in the W part of the Scandinavian Peninsula. 124,555 sq. mi. (322,597 sq. km). Capital: Oslo.
- oilway — a hole in a machine which allows oil to be inserted for lubrication
- outway — A way out or an exit.
- owelty — equality, esp in financial transactions
- owerby — over there
- owlery — a place that owls inhabit
- pedway — a walkway, usually enclosed, permitting pedestrians to go from building to building, as in an urban center, without passing through traffic.
- psywar — psychological warfare.
- qwerty — of or relating to a keyboard having the keys in traditional typewriter arrangement, with the letters q, w, e, r, t, and y being the first six of the top row of alphabetic characters, starting from the left side.
- rahway — a city in NE New Jersey.
- rowley — Thomas. ?1586–?1642, English dramatist, who collaborated with John Ford and Thomas Dekker on The Witch of Edmonton (1621) and with Thomas Middleton on The Changeling (1622)
- runway — a way along which something runs.
- sawfly — any of numerous hymenopterous insects of the family Tenthredinidae, the female of which has a sawlike ovipositor for inserting the eggs in the tissues of a host plant.
- sawney — a fool
- sawyer — a person who saws wood, especially as an occupation.
- schwyz — a canton in central Switzerland, bordering on the Lake of Lucerne. 350 sq. mi. (900 sq. km).
- screwy — crazy; nutty: I think you're screwy, refusing an invitation to the governor's dinner.
- seaway — a way over the sea.
- segway — a two-wheeled self-balancing electric vehicle, ridden while standing up
- shawty — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- sinewy — having strong sinews: a sinewy back.
- skyway — air lane.
- slowly — in a slow manner; at a slow speed: Sauté the peppers slowly. I drove slowly back home.
- spawny — resembling spawn
- strawy — of, containing, or resembling straw.
- subway — Also called, especially British, tube, underground. an underground electric railroad, usually in a large city.
- swabby — Slang. (in the Navy or Coast Guard) a sailor; gob.
- swaddy — a private soldier
- swally — an alcoholic drink
- swampy — of the nature of, resembling, or abounding in swamps.