11-letter words containing f, o, r, w
- out of work — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overforward — too familiar
- oxbow front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a curve with a concave section between two convex ones.
- oxford-down — 1st Earl of, Harley, Robert.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
- powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
- relief work — the work carried out by charities providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
- rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- ship of war — warship.
- showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
- soft sawder — flattery; compliments
- software ag — (company) A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
- sorrowfully — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- sparrowfart — the very early morning
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- throw a fit — a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
- twenty-four — a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
- two-by-four — two units thick and four units wide, especially in inches.
- unforeknown — not foreknown
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- weatherford — a town in N Texas.
- well-formed — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
- werewolfery — the condition of being a werewolf