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12-letter words containing f, e, l, w

  • halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
  • hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
  • jawless fish — cyclostome.
  • jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
  • law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
  • leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • meet halfway — to compromise with
  • newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
  • newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
  • nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
  • off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
  • off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
  • overflow bit — (architecture)   A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
  • overflow pdl — (jargon)   The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • waffle weave — a textile weave that produces a textured pattern resembling the surface of a waffle.
  • wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
  • walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
  • walking leaf — leaf insect.
  • wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
  • watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • water filter — device for removing impurities from water
  • waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
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