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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.
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