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

  • fresh water — water that is not salty
  • 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.
  • frowardness — The quality of being froward.
  • furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
  • half-witted — feeble-minded.
  • id software — (games)   Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
  • mallee fowl — an Australian bird, Leipoa ocellata, of variegated gray, brown, white, and black plumage, that lays up to 35 eggs in an incubating mound.
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • overforward — too familiar
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • sewage farm — a place where sewage is treated, esp for use as manure
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • soft sawder — flattery; compliments
  • software ag — (company)   A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • swamp fever — leptospirosis.
  • the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
  • twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
  • twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
  • view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
  • waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
  • waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
  • waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
  • wage freeze — earnings fixed at current amount
  • wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
  • wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
  • warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
  • wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
  • waterfinder — a dowser; water witch.
  • waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
  • waterfronts — Plural form of waterfront.
  • waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
  • way of life — lifestyle
  • weak safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
  • weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
  • weatherford — a town in N Texas.
  • welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
  • west africa — most westerly part of Africa
  • west-facing — orientated towards the west
  • wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
  • wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
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