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11-letter words containing w, e, l, o, f

  • life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
  • low profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
  • low-profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
  • 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.
  • mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
  • moonflowers — Plural form of moonflower.
  • musk flower — a sticky-hairy plant, Mimulus moschata, of the figwort family, native to northern and western North America, having pale-yellow flowers and a musky odor.
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • new milford — a town in W Connecticut.
  • new-for-old — (of insurance) issued on the principle that claims will be based on the cost of replacing old damaged, destroyed, or lost items with brand new items
  • offset well — An offset well is a wellbore which is close to a proposed well, and which provides information for planning the proposed well.
  • overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
  • relief work — the work carried out by charities providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
  • 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.
  • shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
  • slow-footed — proceeding at a slow pace.
  • 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.
  • steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • twenty-fold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
  • twofoldness — the quality or state of being twofold
  • vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
  • waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
  • 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.
  • wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
  • waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
  • way of life — lifestyle
  • well-formed — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
  • well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
  • wellfounded — (math) Alternative form of well-founded.
  • werewolfery — the condition of being a werewolf
  • werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • wilberforce — William, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.
  • wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
  • wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
  • wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.
  • wolfishness — The quality of being wolfish.
  • wonderfully — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
  • yellow flag — Nautical. quarantine flag.
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