11-letter words containing i, w
- fellowships — Plural form of fellowship.
- fiddle away — to waste (time)
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fiesta ware — molded, opaque-glazed earthenware produced in a wide range of colors from 1936 to 1969.
- fifth wheel — a horizontal ring or segment of a ring, consisting of two bands that slide on each other, placed above the front axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane.
- file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
- fillet weld — a weld with a triangular cross section joining two surfaces that meet in an interior right angle.
- finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- finger wave — a wave set by impressing the fingers into hair dampened by lotion or water.
- finish with — end relationship
- fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
- fixed-width — record
- flag-waving — an ostentatiously emotional display of patriotism or factionalism.
- flake white — lead white.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- flowingness — the quality of being flowing
- fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
- flying wing — an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.
- folk wisdom — wisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
- follow suit — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- foreshowing — Present participle of foreshow.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- forty winks — a short nap.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- freewriting — a free and unstructured style of writing
- friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
- gang switch — a collection of switches connected to separate circuits and operating simultaneously.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- get in with — start to associate with
- get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- get with it — (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.