9-letter words containing y, a, w
- hack away — keep chopping at sth
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- hold sway — have influence
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- 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.
- irrawaddy — a river flowing S through Burma (Myanmar) to the Bay of Bengal. 1250 miles (2015 km) long.
- 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.-->.
- jurywoman — a female juror.
- keep away — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kittyhawk — a village in NE North Carolina: Wright brothers' airplane flight 1903.
- 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
- lock away — put in prison
- 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
- 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
- mollymawk — any of various oceanic birds, as the fulmar or albatross.
- motorways — Plural form of motorway.
- move away — relocate, go to live elsewhere
- muley saw — a saw having a long, stiff blade that is not stretched in a gate, but whose motion is directed by clamps at each end mounted on guide rails.
- nonlawyer — a person who is not a lawyer
- outwardly — as regards appearance or outward manifestation: outwardly charming; outwardly considerate.
- overweary — excessively weary; tired out.
- pass away — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.