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12-letter words containing w, a, f, e

  • half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
  • halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
  • halfwittedly — In a halfwitted manner.
  • henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
  • jawless fish — cyclostome.
  • jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
  • law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
  • leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • meet halfway — to compromise with
  • midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
  • newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
  • newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
  • newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
  • off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
  • off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
  • stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
  • surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
  • take to wife — to marry (a woman)
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
  • unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • unforewarned — not forewarned
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • waffle weave — a textile weave that produces a textured pattern resembling the surface of a waffle.
  • wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
  • walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
  • walking leaf — leaf insect.
  • wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
  • watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • water filter — device for removing impurities from water
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