10-letter words containing y, o, w
- wyomingite — a state in the NW United States. 97,914 sq. mi. (253,595 sq. km). Capital: Cheyenne. Abbreviation: WY (for use with zip code), Wyo., Wy.
- yellow box — (operating system) Apple Computer, Inc.'s new development platform for building desktop, server, and web applications. Yellow Box is a rich object-oriented environment that is tightly integrated with Java and allows you to deploy applications across five platforms: Rhapsody, Rhapsody for Intel, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Mac OS. All Yellow Box-based products are an evolution of OpenStep - an operating system-independent, object-oriented application platform from NeXT. Integrating the cross-platform robustness of OpenStep with Apple's market-leading digital media and graphics technologies will differentiate the Yellow Box from other development platforms. "Yellow Box for Windows" is the run-time software (implemented as dynamically linked libraries) that allows Yellow Box applications to run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. Applications that use it will feature a full native Windows user interface.
- yellow dog — a cowardly, despicable person; a craven.
- yellow gum — any of several Australian eucalyptuses, as Eucalyptus melliodora, having yellowish bark.
- yellow pad — a scratch pad of yellow, lined paper.
- yellow sea — an arm of the Pacific N of the East China Sea, between China and Korea.
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowbird — British Dialect. any of various yellow or golden birds, as the golden oriole of Europe.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellowfins — Plural form of yellowfin.
- yellowhead — Chaetodon xanthocephalus, the yellowhead butterflyfish.
- yellowlegs — either of two American shorebirds having yellow legs, Tringa melanoleuca (greater yellowlegs) or T. flavipes (lesser yellowlegs)
- yellowness — The state or quality of being yellow.
- yellowtail — a game fish, Seriola lalandei, of California.
- yellowware — a type of pottery made from yellowish clay and finished with a transparent, yellow-colored glaze.
- yellowweed — any of certain coarse goldenrods.
- yellowwood — a tree, Cladrastis lutea, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of fragrant, white flowers and wood that yields a yellow dye.
- yellowwort — a gentianaceous perennial, Blackstonia perfoliata, that is related to centaury and has waxy grey foliage and yellow flowers: characteristically found on chalk turf
- yokefellow — an associate or companion, especially at work; partner.
- youngstown — a city in NE Ohio.