11-letter words containing w, a, f
- flake white — lead white.
- flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
- flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
- for want of — If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- 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.
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- 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.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- 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).
- if you want — as you please
- indian wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus pallipes, of Asia south of the Himalayas.
- law faculty — the department or division of a university concerned with teaching law
- 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.
- most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
- 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).
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- 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.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- 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
- ship of war — warship.