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14-letter words containing f, w

  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • fellow-feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
  • find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
  • finnegans wake — a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.
  • fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
  • flannel flower — any Australian plant of the umbelliferous genus Actinotus having white flannel-like bracts beneath the flowers
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • flower-of-jove — a white, woolly plant, Lychnis flos-jovis, of the pink family, having red or purple flowers in dense clusters.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • flying gangway — monkey bridge (def 2).
  • follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • following wind — a wind that is moving in the same direction as the course of a vessel etc
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • forward market — future commodities trading
  • fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • fraternal twin — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • freshers' week — a week at the beginning of a university year, usually with a programme of events intended to welcome new first-year students
  • freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
  • grow away from — lose attachment
  • guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hiram woodruffHiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
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