13-letter words containing w, f, l
- flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
- flower garden — plot for flowers
- flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
- flower seller — a person who sells flowers for a living, usually from a stall in the street
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flutter wheel — a waterwheel at the bottom of a chute, turned by the falling water.
- for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
- foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- 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
- forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
- 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.
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
- frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
- free-wheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
- gallows frame — headframe.
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- in full swing — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
- 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.
- mallow family — the plant family Malvaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having palmately veined, lobed, or compound leaves, sticky juice, often showy five-petaled flowers with stamens united in a column, and fruit in the form of a capsule with several divisions, and including the cotton plant, hibiscus, hollyhock, mallow, okra, and rose of Sharon.
- 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.
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
- 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.
- palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
- 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.
- power failure — electricity outage
- rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
- 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.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.