12-letter words containing f, o, w, e, r
- 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.
- power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
- 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.
- self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
- 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.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- unforewarned — not forewarned
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- 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
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- waterproofer — One who, or that which, makes waterproof.
- weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
- welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
- well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- window frame — structure surrounding a window pane
- wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
- wolf-ferrari — Ermanno [er-mahn-naw] /ɛrˈmɑn nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1948, Italian composer.
- woman friend — a female friend
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- word-perfect — correct in every detail
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
- wrongfulness — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
- yellow fever — an acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by an RNA virus transmitted by a mosquito, especially Aedes aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice.