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13-letter words containing y, o, w

  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • statutory law — the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • sweet trolley — (in a restaurant) a trolley on which desserts are brought to the table so that diners can choose from them
  • sword bayonet — a short sword that may be attached to the muzzle of a gun and used as a bayonet.
  • takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • tansy ragwort — a European composite plant, Senecio jacobaea, naturalized in North America, having numerous yellow flowers.
  • tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
  • thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • throw a party — host a celebration
  • tootsy-wootsy — tootsie1 .
  • twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
  • twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
  • twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
  • untrustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
  • unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
  • upon my word! — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • wacky tobacky — marijuana.
  • waygoing crop — away-going crop.
  • weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
  • web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
  • well-conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
  • wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
  • west by north — a point on the compass 11°15prime; north of west. Abbreviation: WbN.
  • west by south — a point on the compass 11°15prime; south of west. Abbreviation: WbS.
  • west new york — a town in NE New Jersey, across the Hudson from New York City.
  • what have you — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
  • what you will — whatever you like
  • what's yours? — what would you like to drink?
  • wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
  • whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
  • wibbly-wobbly — wobbly
  • willow family — the plant family Salicaceae, characterized by deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, hairy catkins of male and female flowers on separate plants, and capsular fruit, and including the aspen, cottonwood, poplar, and willow.
  • winter savory — See under savory2 .
  • wolffian body — the mesonephros.
  • wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
  • woolly indris — a related nocturnal Madagascan animal, Avahi laniger, with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail
  • woolly monkey — either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.
  • woolly-headed — having hair of a woolly texture or appearance.
  • woolly-minded — showing a vague or muddled way of thinking
  • working party — A working party is a committee which is formed to investigate a particular situation or problem and to produce a report containing its opinions and suggestions.
  • worldly goods — everything you own
  • wrongheadedly — In a wrongheaded manner.
  • yellow enzyme — any of several yellow respiratory enzymes that are members of the flavoprotein group, found naturally as in yeast
  • yellow jacket — any of several paper wasps of the family Vespidae, having black and bright yellow bands.
  • yellow jersey — (in the Tour de France) a yellow jersey worn by the overall leader
  • yellow locust — black locust.
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