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13-letter words containing f, a, w

  • after a while — some time later
  • aircraftwoman — The female equivalent of an aircraftman.
  • aircraftwomen — Plural form of aircraftwoman.
  • angle of view — the angle that corresponds to the field of view provided by a lens
  • anywhere from — any quantity, time, degree, etc, above a specified limit
  • aperitif-wine — a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
  • arc of lowitz — a halo or arc of light, occurring infrequently, which extends diagonally downward from a 22° parhelion.
  • bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
  • basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
  • battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
  • blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
  • camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cape-farewellCape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
  • carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
  • cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
  • class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
  • cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
  • crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
  • dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • fairview park — a city in N Ohio.
  • fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
  • family jewels — a man's genitals
  • fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
  • featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
  • fellow inmate — sb in same prison
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • finagle's law — (humour)   The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flaminian way — an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.

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