10-letter words containing f, w, i
- frowningly — While or as if frowning.
- fruit bowl — dish for displaying fruit
- full swing — full operation; greatest activity: For the first time in years the factory was in full swing. The meeting was in full swing when we arrived.
- full twist — a front or back dive made by a complete rotation of the body on its vertical axis. Compare half twist (def 1).
- golf widow — a woman whose husband frequently leaves her alone while he plays golf.
- guineafowl — Alternative spelling of guinea fowl.
- half twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- half-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- high-flown — extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- in view of — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- kiwi fruit — A kiwi fruit is a fruit with a brown hairy skin and green flesh.
- leftwinger — (Sometimes pejorative) A person who is radically liberal politically; one whose political viewpoint is leftwing.
- lie fallow — to remain uncultivated, unused, unproductive, etc. for a time
- life arrow — an arrowlike projectile for carrying a line for use in maritime rescue operations.
- low relief — bas-relief.
- low-flying — Low-flying aircraft or birds are flying very close to the ground, or lower than normal.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- outflowing — Flowing out.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- skew field — a ring in which the equations ax = b and xa = b have solutions for x.
- stiff with — amply provided with
- swift moth — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- swimfeeder — a device containing bait, attached to the line to ensure the gradual baiting of the swim from under the surface
- swipe left — to move a finger from right to left across a touchscreen in order to dismiss an image
- switch off — the act or process of switching off a power supply, light source, appliance, etc.
- switch-off — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- twin falls — a city in S Idaho.
- twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
- two-fisted — ready for or inclined to physical combat.
- un-willful — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- unfrowning — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- viewfinder — finder (def 2b).
- wadi halfa — a former town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: now under the waters of Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in S Egypt.
- wafer-thin — very thin: a wafer-thin slice.
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- wall fruit — fruit grown on trees trained against a wall for the shelter and warmth it provides
- war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
- warfighter — A soldier in combat.
- watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
- wayfinding — (biology) The ability of a person or animal to orientate itself and to navigate; the process used by a person or animal for orienting itself and navigating.
- websurfing — Present participle of websurf.
- welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
- well-fixed — wealthy; prosperous; well-to-do; well-heeled.
- wharfinger — a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.
- wheatfield — A wheat field; a field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.