11-letter words containing f, a, r
- vanity fair — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) a fair that goes on perpetually in the town of Vanity and symbolizes worldly ostentation and frivolity.
- vasculiform — shaped like a small vase or flowerpot
- ventral fin — pelvic fin.
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- vinegar fly — any fly of the family Drosophilidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying fruit and vegetation.
- vinificator — a condenser for alcohol vapors escaping from fermenting wine.
- vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
- vociferance — vociferant utterance; vociferation.
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
- wage freeze — earnings fixed at current amount
- wait for it — You say 'wait for it' to stop someone from doing something too soon because you have not yet given them the command to do it.
- wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- war footing — the condition or status of a military force or other organization when operating under a state of war or as if a state of war existed.
- war of 1812 — the war between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
- wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
- waterfinder — a dowser; water witch.
- waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
- waterfronts — Plural form of waterfront.
- waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
- weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
- weatherford — a town in N Texas.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- west africa — most westerly part of Africa
- wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
- wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
- wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
- white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
- white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
- whitefriars — a district in central London, England.
- whore after — to pursue something immoral or depraved
- wife-beater — a person who hits his or her wife
- wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.
- witchcrafts — Plural form of witchcraft.
- woodcrafter — a person who makes or carves wooden objects.
- work of art — a piece of creative work in the arts, especially a painting or sculpture.
- worksurface — A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers in a kitchen, that can be used to work on.
- yard of ale — a trumpet-shaped glass about 3 feet (1 meter) long with a bulb at the closed end, for serving ale or beer.
- yard-of-ale — a trumpet-shaped glass about 3 feet (1 meter) long with a bulb at the closed end, for serving ale or beer.
- zebra finch — a small Australian waxbill, Poephila guttata, that has black-and-white barred plumage and a chestnut ear patch: popular as a cage bird.
- zoografting — zooplasty.