11-letter words containing w, e, r, f
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flower shop — a shop where flowers and pot plants are sold
- flower show — a display or exhibition, often competitive, of flowers and plants
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- foreshowing — Present participle of foreshow.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- 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.
- 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.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- freewheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of freewheel.
- freewheeler — a vehicle that can freewheel.
- freewriting — a free and unstructured style of writing
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
- 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 vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
- frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- 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
- gilliflower — any of several plants of various families with clove-scented flowers, as the carnation
- gillyflower — Archaic. any of several fragrant flowers of the genus Dianthus, as the carnation or clove pink.
- globeflower — any of several plants belonging to the genus Trollius, of the buttercup family, as T. laxus, of North America, having rounded, yellowish flowers.
- housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
- ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
- left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
- 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.
- 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 bedford — a seaport in SE Massachusetts: formerly a chief whaling port.
- 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