11-letter words containing y, a, w
- expressways — Plural form of expressway.
- faithworthy — worthy of faith, trustworthy
- fancy woman — an immoral woman, especially a man's mistress.
- farawayness — the state of being faraway
- fiddle away — to waste (time)
- flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gamble away — lose through gambling
- getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
- give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
- harrowingly — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- honey wagon — a wagon or truck for collecting and carrying excrement or manure.
- hyper-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- if you want — as you please
- iykwimaityd — if you know what I mean and I think you do
- jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jayawardene — Junius Richard. 1906–96, Sri Lankan statesman; prime minister (1977–78) and first president of Sri Lanka (1978–89)
- keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
- kinyarwanda — Ruanda (def 2).
- knowability — capable of being known.
- laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
- law faculty — the department or division of a university concerned with teaching law
- law society — association of lawyers
- lawyer cane — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
- low-quality — substandard; of inferior quality: It’s hard to make a delicious dish when you start with low-quality ingredients. Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- mammy wagon — a W African vehicle built on a lorry chassis, capable of carrying both passengers and goods
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- may as well — If you say that something, usually something bad, might as well be true or may as well be true, you mean that the situation is the same or almost the same as if it were true.
- meadow lily — Canada lily.
- money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
- mu'awiyah i — ?602–680 ad, first caliph (661–80) of the Omayyad dynasty of Damascus; regarded as having secularized the caliphate
- nay pyi taw — the official capital of Myanmar (Burma), built in the centre of the country near Pyinmana in 2005–2006, and superseding Yangon (Rangoon) for main government functions. Pop: officially approaching 1 000 000 in 2007
- new harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825.
- news agency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- northwardly — Northwards, towards the north.
- norway pine — red pine.
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
- palsy-walsy — friendly or appearing to be friendly in a very intimate or hearty way: The police kept their eye on him because he was trying to get palsy-walsy with the security guard.