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.