18-letter words containing f, o, l, w
- to plough a furrow — If you say that someone ploughs a particular furrow or ploughs their own furrow, you mean that their activities or interests are different or isolated from those of other people.
- ultralow frequency — an electromagnetic wave with a frequency between 300 and 3000 hertz. Abbreviation: ULF, ulf.
- very low frequency — any frequency between 3 and 30 kilohertz. Abbreviation: VLF.
- vicar of wakefield — a novel (1766) by Goldsmith.
- weak nuclear force — weak interaction
- where you left off — If something continues from where it left off, it starts happening again at the point where it had previously stopped.
- wild passionflower — the maypop, Passiflora incarnata.
- wildlife programme — (esp on television) a documentary whose subject is wild animals in their natural habitat or undomesticated fauna and flora generally
- with flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
- woman of the world — a woman experienced and sophisticated in the ways and manners of the world, especially the world of society.
- world of one's own — a state of mental detachment from other people
- wrongful dismissal — the act of making someone redundant for reasons which are illegal or unjust
- yelloweye rockfish — a red rockfish, Sebastes ruberrimus, of waters along the Pacific coast of North America, having eyes that are yellow and possessed of strong, sawlike bony ridges on the head.