11-letter words containing a, w
- flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
- flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
- for want of — If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
- fox sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerella iliaca, having a bright rufous tail and streaked breast.
- framework 4 — A European Union funding programme, the information technology portion of which replaced ESPRIT.
- frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- gallowglass — a follower and supporter of or a soldier owing allegiance to an Irish chief.
- gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
- gamble away — lose through gambling
- game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
- gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
- gang switch — a collection of switches connected to separate circuits and operating simultaneously.
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gauze weave — leno (def 1).
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- geneva gown — a loose, large-sleeved, black preaching gown worn by members of the Protestant clergy: so named from its use by the Calvinist clergy of Geneva, Switzerland.
- gentlewoman — a woman of good family, breeding, or social position.
- get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
- getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- go to waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- goods wagon — a heavy railroad freight car.
- googlewhack — A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.
- grandnephew — a son of one's nephew or niece.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.