12-letter words containing w, f, t
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
- powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
- right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- take to wife — to marry (a woman)
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
- twenty-fifth — next after the twenty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 25.
- twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- uniform with — having the same form, appearance, etc. as
- unwatchfully — in an unwatchful manner
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- water filter — device for removing impurities from water
- waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterproofed — Having been made waterproof.
- waterproofer — One who, or that which, makes waterproof.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
- weft-knitted — noting or pertaining to a fabric made by weft knitting.
- weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
- well-fitting — suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
- well-staffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- white coffee — coffee: with milk