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15-letter words containing w, e, t, f, l

  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • battle of wills — A battle of wills is a situation that involves people who try to defeat each other by refusing to change their own aims or demands and hoping that their opponents will weaken first.
  • beef wellington — a lightly roasted beef fillet covered with pâté de foie gras, wrapped in pastry, and then baked
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • cold-water flat — (formerly) an apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
  • fellow traveler — a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
  • fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
  • free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
  • free throw line — foul line (def 2).
  • fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • light flyweight — an amateur boxer weighing not more than 48 kg (106 pounds)
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
  • newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
  • saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
  • sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • tower of london — a historic fortress in London, England: originally a royal palace, later a prison, now an arsenal and museum.
  • wager of battle — (in medieval Britain) a pledge to do battle for a cause, esp to decide guilt or innocence by single combat
  • waterfall model — (programming)   A software life-cycle or product life-cycle model, described by W. W. Royce in 1970, in which development is supposed to proceed linearly through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing (validation), integration and maintenance. The Waterfall Model is considered old-fashioned or simplistic by proponents of object-oriented design which often uses the spiral model instead. Earlier phases are sometimes called "upstream" and later ones "downstream". Compare: iterative model.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • welfare statism — the belief in or practices of a welfare state.

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