11-letter words containing f, o, w
- ship of war — warship.
- showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
- showing-off — behaviour designed to impress people
- slow-footed — proceeding at a slow pace.
- 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
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- 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-fold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- twenty-four — a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
- two-by-four — two units thick and four units wide, especially in inches.
- twofoldness — the quality or state of being twofold
- unforeknown — not foreknown
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- 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.
- way of life — lifestyle
- weatherford — a town in N Texas.
- well-formed — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
- well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
- wellfounded — (math) Alternative form of well-founded.
- werewolfery — the condition of being a werewolf
- werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
- wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
- whenceforth — from which time or place forward
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
- white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
- whore after — to pursue something immoral or depraved
- wilberforce — William, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.
- wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.