9-letter words containing w, y
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hornywink — a lapwing
- howlingly — producing or uttering a howling noise: a howling mob.
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- hywel dda — known as Hywel the Good. died 950 ad, Welsh prince. He united S and N Wales and codified Welsh law
- idle away — time, hours: pass lazily
- in no way — You use in no way or not in any way to emphasize that a statement is not at all true.
- iowa city — a city in SE Iowa.
- irish yew — a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having upright branches and dark green foliage with color variations.
- irrawaddy — a river flowing S through Burma (Myanmar) to the Bay of Bengal. 1250 miles (2015 km) long.
- ivorywood — the yellowish-white wood of an Australian tree, Siphonodon australe, used for engraving, inlaying, and turnery
- jawlensky — Alexej von [ah-le-ksey fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈkseɪ fən/ (Show IPA), 1864?–1941, German painter, born in Russia.
- jayhawker — a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).
- jaywalked — Simple past tense and past participle of jaywalk.
- jaywalker — One who jaywalks; someone who has committed jaywalking.-->.
- jewellery — articles of gold, silver, precious stones, etc., for personal adornment.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- jurywomen — Plural form of jurywoman.
- keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keyworker — The keyworker for a particular group of clients or patients is the person who works with them most closely and has most responsibility for them.
- kiddywink — a child
- kittyhawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
- knowingly — affecting, implying, or deliberately revealing shrewd knowledge of secret or private information: a knowing glance.
- kollywood — the Tamil-language film industry, based at Kodambakkam in S India
- ladderway — a vertical passageway with ladders.
- lawlessly — In a lawless manner. Without constraint by law or moral code.
- lawyering — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
- lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
- leewardly — (of a ship) tending to fall to leeward
- llewellyn — Richard (Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) 1907?–83, Welsh novelist.
- lock away — put in prison
- lollywood — the Pakistani film industry, based in Lahore
- low-lying — lying near sea level or the ground surface. low-lying land.
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- lyke-wake — a watch held over a dead person, often with festivities
- lynch law — the administration of summary punishment, especially death, upon a suspected, accused, or convicted person by a mob acting without legal process or authority.
- make away — to depart in haste
- manawydan — a brother of Bran, Efnisien, and Branwen, and the second husband of Rhiannon: he rescued Pryderi from enchantments cast upon him by Llwyd.
- marrowsky — spoonerism
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- mayflower — (italics) the ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton to the New World in 1620.
- melt away — thaw
- midweekly — midweek.
- midwifery — the technique or practice of a midwife.
- milky way — the spiral galaxy containing our solar system. With the naked eye it is observed as a faint luminous band stretching across the heavens, composed of approximately a trillion stars, most of which are too distant to be seen individually.
- mollyhawk — the juvenile of the southern black-backed gull, Larus dominicanus