13-letter words containing ay
- holiday-maker — vacationer.
- holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
- holy saturday — the Saturday in Holy Week.
- holy thursday — Ascension Day.
- in harm's way — If someone is put in harm's way, they are caused to be in a dangerous situation.
- in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
- in the way of — similar to, like
- incentive pay — additional pay, a higher wage, or a bonus paid to promote the productivity of an employee.
- jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
- kootenay lake — a lake in W Canada, in S British Columbia. 64 miles (103 km) long.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- lady mayoress — the wife of a lord mayor
- lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
- light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
- little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
- lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
- magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
- make sb's day — If something makes your day, it makes you feel very happy.
- matagorda bay — a bay in SE Texas, at the mouth of the Colorado River, separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Matagorda Peninsula. About 50 miles (80 km) long.
- maternity pay — the pay a woman receives from her work during her absence immediately before and after childbirth
- mayor's court — a city court presided over by a mayor.
- medullary ray — (in the stems of woody plants) one of the vertical bands or plates of unspecialized tissue that radiate between the pith and the bark.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- midday prayer — the fourth of the seven canonical hours; sext
- midsummer day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
- morgan le fay — the fairy sister of King Arthur.
- nativity play — A nativity play is a play about the birth of Jesus, usually one performed by children at Christmas time.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- night and day — the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
- non-repayable — to pay back or refund, as money.
- norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
- novaya zemlya — two large islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to the Russian Federation. 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km).
- oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
- once and away — conclusively
- out one's way — in, to, or near one's neighborhood
- overlay glass — case glass.
- parallel play — a form of play in which a very young child plays independently in the presence of another child or other children.
- patriot's day — the third Monday in April, a legal holiday in Me. and Mass. commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
- patriots' day — the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord (1775), celebrated the third Monday in April: a legal holiday in Massachusetts and Maine.
- pay a pension — If a company or government pays a pension to someone, it provides them with money because they have reached a certain age.
- pay as you go — the act of paying or being paid; payment.
- pay attention — be attentive