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

  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
  • gallows frame — headframe.
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • head of water — a quantity of water
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • in the way of — similar to, like
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • make off with — take away
  • matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
  • off the wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
  • overflow flag — overflow bit
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • power forward — a forward valued chiefly for aggressive rebounding capability, rather than scoring, and thus a big, physically strong player.
  • power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • send away for — order by post
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • taffeta weave — plain weave.
  • takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • twist of fate — unexpected chance occurrence
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
  • 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.
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • water bailiff — an official responsible for enforcing laws on river management and fishing
  • water buffalo — a buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, of the Old World tropics, having large, flattened, curved horns: wild populations are near extinction.
  • water feather — a water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum.
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