11-letter words containing w, f, r
- finger wave — a wave set by impressing the fingers into hair dampened by lotion or water.
- fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
- flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
- flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flower shop — a shop where flowers and pot plants are sold
- flower show — a display or exhibition, often competitive, of flowers and plants
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- flowthrough — Flow (through a system or process).
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
- for want of — If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- foreshowing — Present participle of foreshow.
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- forty winks — a short nap.
- forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- four-by-two — a piece of timber with a cross section that measures 4 inches by 2 inches
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
- fox sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerella iliaca, having a bright rufous tail and streaked breast.
- framework 4 — A European Union funding programme, the information technology portion of which replaced ESPRIT.
- frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- freewheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of freewheel.
- freewheeler — a vehicle that can freewheel.
- freewriting — a free and unstructured style of writing
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- front vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
- frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.