13-letter words containing o, f, w
- ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
- waldorf salad — a salad of celery, diced apples, nuts, and mayonnaise.
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
- war of nerves — a conflict using psychological techniques, as propaganda, threats, and false rumors, rather than direct violence, in order to confuse, thwart, or intimidate an enemy.
- ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- water buffalo — a buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, of the Old World tropics, having large, flattened, curved horns: wild populations are near extinction.
- water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
- water-proofed — impervious to water.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
- wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
- weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
- webfoot state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
- welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
- well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- well-followed — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
- west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- what about/of — You use what about or what of when you introduce a new topic or a point which seems relevant to a previous remark.
- wheel of life — the symbol of the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.
- willow family — the plant family Salicaceae, characterized by deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, hairy catkins of male and female flowers on separate plants, and capsular fruit, and including the aspen, cottonwood, poplar, and willow.
- wolffian body — the mesonephros.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- word deafness — inability to comprehend the meanings of words though they are heard, caused by lesions of the auditory center of the brain.
- word for word — in exactly the same words; verbatim.
- word of honor — a pledge of one's honor that a specified condition, bargain, etc., will be fulfilled; oath; promise.
- word of mouth — informal oral communication: The rumor spread rapidly by word of mouth.
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- work-furlough — work-release.
- working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
- woulfe bottle — a bottle with more than one neck, used for passing gases through liquids
- writ of error — a writ issued by an appellate court to the court of record where a case was tried, requiring that the record of the trial be sent to the appellate court for examination of alleged errors.
- writ of right — English Law. a writ directed to a person who presided over a feudal court, directing him to render justice between his vassals in a dispute as to ownership of land: usually led to a trial in a royal court if feudal ownership was involved.