12-letter words that end in ay
- squeeze play — Baseball. Also called suicide squeeze, suicide squeeze play. a play executed when there is a runner on third base and usually not more than one out, in which the runner starts for home as soon as the pitcher makes a motion to pitch, and the batter bunts. Also called safety squeeze, safety squeeze play. a similar play in which the runner on third base waits until the batter has successfully bunted before trying to score.
- straightaway — straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- the kootenay — a lake in British Columbia: fed chiefly by the Kootenay; drains into the Columbia River
- to hold sway — If someone or something holds sway, they have great power or influence over a particular place or activity.
- triatic stay — a backstay for the head of a fore-and-aft-rigged topmast, running down to the head of the lower mast next aft.
- tube railway — subway (def 1).
- undulate ray — a species of ray (Raja undulata), found on the southern coasts of the British Isles
- vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
- vascular ray — a radiate band of parenchyma in the secondary xylem extending into the secondary phloem of the stems of certain vascular plants, formed by the cambium and serving for the storage of food and the conduction of nutriments.
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- victoria day — (in Canada) the first Monday preceding May 25, observed as a national holiday.
- waitangi day — the national day of New Zealand (Feb 6), commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government. The treaty provided the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
- wave-and-pay — relating to a payment system that uses RFID technology to allow a customer to pay for goods by passing a card in front of a sensor
- whittle away — To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective.