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15-letter words containing w, f, l

  • welfare officer — a person who gives people help and advice
  • welfare statism — the belief in or practices of a welfare state.
  • well-formedness — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
  • well-formulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • well-identified — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  • well-thought-of — highly esteemed; of good reputation: a well-thought-of scholar; This new book is well-thought-of.
  • west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
  • white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
  • winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • wish fulfilment — (in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation
  • wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
  • wood woollyfoot — a common yellowish basidiomycetous fungus, Collybia peronata, of broad-leaved woodland, having a hairy tuft at the foot of the stem
  • work oneself up — become overwrought
  • wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
  • yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.
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