| airway | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline, airline business |
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| (noun) a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) | Synonyms: air duct, air passage |
| (noun) the passages through which air enters and leaves the body | Synonyms: respiratory tract |
| (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, flight path, skyway |
| alleyway | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alley, back street |
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| anyway | (adverb) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement | Synonyms: anyhow, anyways, at any rate, in any case, in any event |
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| (adverb) in any way whatsoever | Synonyms: anyhow |
| archway | (noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: arch |
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| areaway | (noun) a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement | - |
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| away | (adjective) used of an opponent's ground | - |
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| (adjective) not present; having left | - |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: outside |
| (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: forth, off |
| (adverb) from one's possession | Synonyms: out |
| (adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: aside, by |
| (adverb) out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) out of existence | - |
| (adverb) indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily | - |
| (adverb) in a different direction | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping) | - |
| (adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: off |
| (adverb) so as to be removed or gotten rid of | - |
| (adverb) freely or at will | - |
| beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| (noun) the act of breaking away or withdrawing from | Synonyms: breaking away |
| byway | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byroad |
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| caraway | (noun) leaves used sparingly in soups and stews | - |
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| (noun) a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed | Synonyms: Carum carvi |
| carriageway | (noun) one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes | - |
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| castaway | (noun) a shipwrecked person | Synonyms: shipwreck survivor |
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| (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: Ishmael, outcast, pariah |
| causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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| (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
| (verb) provide with a causeway | - |
| clearway | (noun) a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) | - |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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| cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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| (noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
| doorway | (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, room access, threshold |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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| entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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| entryway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entry |
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| expressway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| fairway | (noun) the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short | - |
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| (noun) a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement | - |
| (noun) the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters | - |
| faraway | (adjective) far removed mentally | - |
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| (adjective) very far away in space or time | Synonyms: far-off |
| flyaway | (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) (of hair or clothing) worn loose | - |
| flyway | (noun) the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate | Synonyms: migration route |
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| foldaway | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, folding |
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| freeway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| gangway | (noun) a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site) | - |
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| (noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangplank |
| (noun) passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores | Synonyms: aisle |
| gateway | (noun) an entrance that can be closed by a gate | - |
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| getaway | (noun) a rapid escape (as by criminals) | Synonyms: lam |
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| (noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: pickup |
| giveaway | (noun) an unintentional disclosure | - |
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| (noun) a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards | Synonyms: game show |
| (noun) a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group | - |
| greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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| halfway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, middle, midway |
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| (adjective) including only half or a portion | - |
| (adjective) at a point midway between two extremes | - |
| (adverb) at half the distance; at the middle | Synonyms: midway |
| hallway | (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hall |
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| hatchway | (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: opening, scuttle |
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| headway | (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: head |
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| (noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headroom |
| hideaway | (noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: retreat |
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| (noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideout |
| highway | (noun) a major road for any form of motor transport | Synonyms: main road |
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| leeway | (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, margin, tolerance |
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| (noun) (of a ship or plane) sideways drift | - |
| midway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, halfway, middle |
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| (noun) the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located | - |
| (adverb) at half the distance; at the middle | Synonyms: halfway |
| motorway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| mulloway | (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: jewfish, Sciaena antarctica |
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| parkway | (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: drive |
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| passageway | (noun) a passage between rooms or between buildings | - |
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| (noun) a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass | Synonyms: passage |
| pathway | (noun) a trodden path | Synonyms: footpath |
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| (noun) a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain | Synonyms: nerve pathway, nerve tract, tract |
| raceway | (noun) a canal for a current of water | Synonyms: race |
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| (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, track |
| railway | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system |
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| (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad, railroad track |
| ringway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, bypass, ring road |
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| roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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| ropeway | (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, tram, tramway |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, fugitive |
| runway | (noun) a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. | - |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, track |
| (noun) a chute down which logs can slide | - |
| seaway | (noun) a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels | Synonyms: sea lane, ship route, trade route |
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| shipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: slipway, ways |
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| (noun) a canal large enough for seagoing vessels | Synonyms: ship canal |
| sideway | (adverb) from the side; obliquely | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
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| (adverb) with one side forward or to the front | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
| (adverb) in a lateral direction | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
| skyway | (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, airway, flight path |
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| slideway | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slide, sloping trough |
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| slipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, ways |
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| sluiceway | (noun) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | Synonyms: penstock, sluice |
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| someway | (adverb) in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | Synonyms: somehow, someways |
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| speedway | (noun) a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles | - |
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| (noun) road where high speed driving is allowed | - |
| spillway | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, wasteweir |
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| stairway | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: staircase |
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| steerageway | (noun) (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered | - |
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| stowaway | (noun) a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off |
| straightway | (adverb) in a direct course | - |
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| (adverb) at once | - |
| subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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| (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
| superhighway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, throughway, thruway |
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| (noun) an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form | Synonyms: information superhighway |
| sway | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, tilt |
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| (noun) controlling influence | - |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, shake |
| (verb) move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner | Synonyms: swing |
| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: rock |
| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, persuade |
| takeaway | (noun) the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass) | - |
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| (noun) a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures | - |
| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeout, takeout food |
| taxiway | (noun) a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport | Synonyms: taxi strip |
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| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
| throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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| throwaway | (adjective) intended to be thrown away after use | - |
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| (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill |
| (noun) words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis | - |
| (noun) (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets | Synonyms: gamin, street arab |
| thruway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway |
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| tideway | (noun) a channel in which a tidal current runs | - |
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| tramway | (noun) the track on which trams or streetcars run | Synonyms: streetcar track, tramline |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway, tram |
| underway | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: afoot |
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| walkaway | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in |
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| walkway | (noun) a path set aside for walking | Synonyms: paseo, walk |
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| waterway | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: watercourse |
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| (noun) a navigable body of water | - |
| way | (noun) a course of conduct | Synonyms: path, way of life |
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| (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, means |
| (noun) a journey or passage | - |
| (noun) any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another | - |
| (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, style |
| (noun) the property of distance in general | - |
| (noun) doing as one pleases or chooses | - |
| (noun) a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of' | - |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: direction |
| (noun) a portion of something divided into shares | - |
| (noun) space for movement | Synonyms: elbow room, room |
| (noun) the condition of things generally | - |
| (adverb) to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States) | Synonyms: right smart |