15-letter words containing y, w
- jayhawker state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
- jewelers' putty — putty powder.
- lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
- lady-in-waiting — a lady who is in attendance upon a queen or princess.
- language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
- law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
- leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
- legacy software — legacy system
- light flyweight — an amateur boxer weighing not more than 48 kg (106 pounds)
- lutzow-holm bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land.
- mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
- milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
- mind how you go — Some people say 'Mind how you go' when they are saying goodbye to someone who is leaving.
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- nearly-new shop — a shop that sells secondhand clothes and other objects
- new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
- new jersey plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
- new port richey — a town in central Florida.
- new york minute — a very short time.
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
- noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- old boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
- play havoc with — bring chaos to
- primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
- primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
- primrose yellow — primrose (def 3).
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- psyllid yellows — a viral disease transmitted by the potato psyllid, causing the young leaves of potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers to curl and turn yellow or purplish.
- queen's highway — king's highway.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- railway journey — a journey made by railway train
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- railway station — train stop, railroad station
- royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
- saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
- say a few words — to give a brief speech
- snowy mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.