12-letter words containing w, e, r, f
- freewheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- french twist — French roll.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
- gang warfare — violent fighting or conflict between street gangs
- germ warfare — biological warfare.
- gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
- graham wafer — a cracker intended to aid digestion.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
- horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
- law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- new frontier — the principles and policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy.
- nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
- of few words — taciturn, who rarely speaks
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- overflow pdl — (jargon) The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- 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.
- power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
- 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
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- 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.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
- self-renewal — the act of renewing.
- 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.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains