11-letter words containing r, w
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- foreshowing — Present participle of foreshow.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- forty winks — a short nap.
- forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- four-by-two — a piece of timber with a cross section that measures 4 inches by 2 inches
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
- fox sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerella iliaca, having a bright rufous tail and streaked breast.
- framework 4 — A European Union funding programme, the information technology portion of which replaced ESPRIT.
- frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- freewheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of freewheel.
- freewheeler — a vehicle that can freewheel.
- freewriting — a free and unstructured style of writing
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- 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.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- front vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
- frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- game warden — a public official who enforces game laws.
- garden wall — a wall surrounding a garden or separating two gardens
- george town — Also, George Town. a seaport in and the capital of the state of Penang, in NW Malaysia.
- get nowhere — make no progress
- getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- ginger wine — an alcoholic drink made from fermented bruised ginger, sugar, and water
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
- googlewhore — (Internet slang) To promote via Google; in particular, to do so by googlebombing.
- gopher wood — an unidentified wood used in building Noah's ark. Gen. 6:14.
- grandnephew — a son of one's nephew or niece.
- graniteware — a kind of ironware with a gray, stonelike enamel.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.