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12-letter words containing y, n, w

  • amboyna wood — the mottled, curled wood of an Asiatic, leguminous tree (Pterocarpus indicus), used in making furniture
  • angle of yaw — the acute angle between the longitudinal axis of an aircraft or spacecraft and a given reference direction, as viewed from above.
  • antisway bar — stabilizer bar.
  • aykhona wena — an exclamation expressive of surprise, pain, pleasure, etc
  • bargain away — to lose or renounce (freedom, rights, etc) in return for something valueless or of little value
  • buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
  • buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
  • companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
  • company town — a town built by a company for its employees
  • conway's law — (project, humour)   The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
  • corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
  • countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
  • countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
  • cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
  • crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
  • crown colony — a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown
  • cylinder saw — crown saw.
  • down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
  • downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • eensy-weensy — tiny; small.
  • entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
  • explain away — If someone explains away a mistake or a bad situation they are responsible for, they try to indicate that it is unimportant or that it is not really their fault.
  • eye-watering — painful or extremely unpleasant
  • eyewitnesses — Plural form of eyewitness.
  • far and away — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
  • flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
  • galanty show — pantomime shadow play
  • get anywhere — to be successful
  • granny woman — midwife (def 1).
  • gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
  • halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
  • hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
  • hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
  • hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
  • henry howardEarl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
  • in a bad way — not good in any manner or degree.
  • in a big way — very much, greatly
  • industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
  • journeywoman — The female equivalent of a journeyman.
  • junk jewelry — cheap costume jewelry.
  • k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
  • know by name — to have heard of without having met
  • laundrywoman — laundress.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
  • layaway plan — a method of purchasing by which the purchaser reserves an article with a down payment and claims it only after paying the full balance.

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