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11-letter words containing w, f, r

  • soft sawder — flattery; compliments
  • software ag — (company)   A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
  • sorrowfully — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
  • sparrowfart — the very early morning
  • 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.
  • swamp fever — leptospirosis.
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • swine fever — hog cholera.
  • sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
  • the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
  • throw a fit — a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
  • 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
  • trophy wife — the young, often second, wife of a rich middle-aged man.
  • twenty-four — a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
  • two-by-four — two units thick and four units wide, especially in inches.
  • unforeknown — not foreknown
  • view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
  • waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
  • 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.
  • wage freeze — earnings fixed at current amount
  • wait for it — You say 'wait for it' to stop someone from doing something too soon because you have not yet given them the command to do it.
  • wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
  • wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
  • war footing — the condition or status of a military force or other organization when operating under a state of war or as if a state of war existed.
  • war of 1812 — the war between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815.
  • warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
  • warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
  • wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
  • waterfinder — a dowser; water witch.
  • waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
  • waterfronts — Plural form of waterfront.
  • waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
  • weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
  • weatherford — a town in N Texas.
  • welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
  • well-formed — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
  • werewolfery — the condition of being a werewolf
  • werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
  • west africa — most westerly part of Africa
  • wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
  • wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • whenceforth — from which time or place forward
  • 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.
  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
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