11-letter words containing w, f, l
- 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.
- self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- self-weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- self-willed — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- slow-footed — proceeding at a slow pace.
- 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.
- sorrowfully — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- 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.
- tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
- trifle with — treat frivolously
- twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
- twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
- twelfthtide — the season of Twelfth Night and Twelfth Day.
- twenty-fold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- twofoldness — the quality or state of being twofold
- unwillfully — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
- waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
- 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.
- wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
- walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
- wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
- waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
- way of life — lifestyle
- welded tuff — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting mainly of welded shards of feldspar and quartz.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well-fitted — made so as to follow closely the contours of a form or shape: fitted clothes; fitted sheets.
- well-formed — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
- well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
- wellfounded — (math) Alternative form of well-founded.
- werewolfery — the condition of being a werewolf
- werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
- what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
- wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
- wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
- whiffletree — a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces of a harness are fastened for pulling a cart, carriage, plow, etc.
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.