13-letter words containing w, e, r, f
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- free-swimming — (of aquatic organisms) not attached to a base nor joined in a colony; capable of swimming about freely.
- free-swinging — recklessly daring in action or style: free-swinging stock market speculators.
- free-wheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
- frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
- from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- gallows frame — headframe.
- head of water — a quantity of water
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- if i were you — You say 'if I were you' to someone when you are giving them advice.
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
- new york fern — a shield fern, Thelypteris noveboracenis, of eastern North America, having yellowish-green fronds.
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
- office worker — employee in an office
- out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
- overflow flag — overflow bit
- overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- power failure — electricity outage
- power forward — a forward valued chiefly for aggressive rebounding capability, rather than scoring, and thus a big, physically strong player.
- power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- send away for — order by post
- siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it