11-letter words containing w, i, f, l
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- 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
- twelfthtide — the season of Twelfth Night and Twelfth Day.
- unwillfully — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- 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.
- walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- way of life — lifestyle
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- well-fitted — made so as to follow closely the contours of a form or shape: fitted clothes; fitted sheets.
- werewolfish — characteristic of a werewolf
- what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
- wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
- 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 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
- whitefeller — (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.
- wiffle ball — a hollow plastic baseball, one side of which is perforated to enable the pitching of various types of curveball: used in an informal variation of baseball
- wilberforce — William, 1759–1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.
- wild fennel — any of several annual herbs of the genus Nigella, having dissected leaves and showy blue or white flowers.
- wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
- wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.
- wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
- wildfowling — Present participle of wildfowl.
- willfulness — deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder.
- wishfulness — The state or quality of being wishful; sometimes specifically wishful thinking.
- wistfulness — characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
- wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.
- wolfishness — The quality of being wolfish.
- yellowfinch — any of several tropical American finches of the genus Sicalis, most of which are bright yellow in color.
- yellowknife — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.