12-letter words containing f, w, i
- giftwrapping — giftwrapping.
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
- howlin' wolf — (Chester Arthur Burnett) 1910–76, U.S. blues singer.
- in full flow — Someone who is in full flow is talking easily and continuously and seems likely to go on talking for some time.
- jawless fish — cyclostome.
- jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
- new frontier — the principles and policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
- pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- 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).
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- rainbow roof — a gable roof in the form of a broad Gothic arch, with gently sloping convex surfaces.
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- take to wife — to marry (a woman)
- twenty-fifth — next after the twenty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 25.
- twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- uniform with — having the same form, appearance, etc. as
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.