11-letter words containing w, e, r, f
- office work — work normally carried out in an office, for example clerical or administrative work for an organization
- overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- overforward — too familiar
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
- powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
- 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.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- 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
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
- 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.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- swine fever — hog cholera.
- the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
- 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.
- trifle with — treat frivolously
- trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
- twenty-four — a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
- unforeknown — not foreknown
- 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-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
- 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.
- 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
- well-formed — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
- werewolfery — the condition of being a werewolf
- werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
- west africa — most westerly part of Africa
- wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.