13-letter words containing w, i, l, f
- palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
- 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.
- power failure — electricity outage
- 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.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
- spider flower — cleome
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
- water bailiff — an official responsible for enforcing laws on river management and fishing
- water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- weightlifters — Plural form of weightlifter.
- weightlifting — the act, art, or sport of lifting barbells of given poundages in a prescribed manner, as a competitive event or conditioning exercise.
- well-financed — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- well-finished — ended or completed.
- well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
- wheel of life — the symbol of the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.
- when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
- white truffle — an edible fungus, Tuber magnatum pico, occurring in certain parts of northern Italy, and considered a great delicacy.
- wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
- wildlife park — animal reserve
- willow family — the plant family Salicaceae, characterized by deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, hairy catkins of male and female flowers on separate plants, and capsular fruit, and including the aspen, cottonwood, poplar, and willow.
- wolffian body — the mesonephros.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
- working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.