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

  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
  • wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
  • walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
  • waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
  • welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
  • well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • well-founded — having a foundation in fact; based on good reasons, information, etc.: well-founded suspicions.
  • west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
  • wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
  • wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
  • wolf-ferrari — Ermanno [er-mahn-naw] /ɛrˈmɑn nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1948, Italian composer.
  • wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
  • wrongfulness — unjust or unfair: a wrongful act; a wrongful charge.
  • yellow fever — an acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by an RNA virus transmitted by a mosquito, especially Aedes aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice.
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