10-letter words containing o, f, w, a
- frontwoman — The lead female singer in a band.
- go-forward — forward momentum, esp of a sports team during a match
- guineafowl — Alternative spelling of guinea fowl.
- half crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- law of war — rules or a code of rules governing the rights and duties of belligerents in an international war.
- left arrow — (character) The graphic which the 1963 version of ASCII had in place of the underscore character, ASCII 95.
- 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 fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- malleefowl — Alternative form of mallee fowl.
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- man-of-war — a warship.
- maned wolf — a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number.
- marrow fat — a large-seeded variety of pea.
- marrowfats — Plural form of marrowfat.
- mowrah fat — a yellow, semifluid fat expressed from the seeds of several trees of the genus Madhuca, used in making soap and as an adulterant in butter.
- on welfare — the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
- playfellow — a playmate.
- ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- scapa flow — an area of water off the N coast of Scotland, in the Orkney Islands: British naval base; German warships scuttled 1919.
- soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- swordcraft — skill in or the art of swordplay.
- tug of war — an athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other over a line.
- tug-of-war — an athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other over a line.
- upwards of — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
- waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
- wagon roof — barrel vault.
- wallflower — a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
- war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
- warm front — a transition zone between a mass of warm air and the colder air it is replacing.
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
- waterfront — land on the edge of a body of water.
- waterproof — impervious to water.
- wave front — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.
- weak force — a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- wolframate — tungstate.
- wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
- wolfsbanes — Plural form of wolfsbane.
- womanfully — in a manner full of womanly spirit: She struggled womanfully to complete the task.
- world fair — an international exhibition of industrial, scientific, artistic etc achievements of different countries in the world
- wow factor — quality of being able to astound