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12-letter words containing o, r, w, e

  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
  • flower power — Flower power is an old-fashioned way of referring to hippies and the culture associated with hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
  • for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
  • foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
  • foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
  • fort stewart — a military reservation in SE Georgia, SW of Savannah.
  • forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
  • forward gear — a gear in a vehicle that is used when the vehicle is moving forward
  • forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
  • forward rate — the agreed price for something that is to be bought or sold at a later date
  • forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
  • four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
  • fox software — (company)   Developers of FoxBASE+ and FoxPRO. Fox Software merged with Microsoft around 1992. Addresss: Perrysburg, OH, USA.
  • full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
  • gallows tree — a gallows.
  • george dewey — George, 1837–1917, U.S. admiral: defeated Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
  • get in wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
  • ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
  • ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
  • ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
  • giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
  • gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
  • globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
  • golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
  • gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
  • gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
  • grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
  • ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
  • growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
  • guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
  • half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
  • hammer throw — a field event in which the hammer is thrown for distance.
  • harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • hello, world — (programming)   The canonical, minimal, first program that a programmer writes in a new programming language or development environment. The program just prints "hello, world" to standard output in order to verify that the programmer can successfully edit, compile and run a simple program before embarking on anything more challenging. Hello, world is the first example program in the C programming book, K&R, and the tradition has spread from there to pretty much every other language and many of their textbooks. Environments that generate an unreasonably large executable for this trivial test or which require a hairy compiler-linker invocation to generate it are considered bad.
  • henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
  • henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
  • here and now — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
  • hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
  • high-powered — extremely energetic, dynamic, and capable: high-powered executives.
  • hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
  • 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.
  • hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
  • hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
  • horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
  • hotel worker — a person who works in the hotel industry
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