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13-letter words containing w, f, r

  • of many words — talkative
  • of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
  • office worker — employee in an office
  • out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • power forward — a forward valued chiefly for aggressive rebounding capability, rather than scoring, and thus a big, physically strong player.
  • power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
  • rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
  • re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • 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.
  • sawtooth roof — a roof composed of a series of small parallel roofs of triangular cross section, usually asymmetrical with the shorter slope glazed.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
  • send away for — order by post
  • shy away from — If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
  • siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
  • small forward — a versatile attacking player
  • spider flower — cleome
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
  • sulfur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • superpowerful — extremely powerful
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • the worst off — those people who are in the worst situation
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
  • twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
  • two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
  • ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
  • wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
  • waldorf salad — a salad of celery, diced apples, nuts, and mayonnaise.
  • war of nerves — a conflict using psychological techniques, as propaganda, threats, and false rumors, rather than direct violence, in order to confuse, thwart, or intimidate an enemy.
  • ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
  • watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
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