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14-letter words containing w, o, f, i

  • officious will — a will by which the testator gives his or her property to the natural objects of such bounty, as the family.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
  • pinxter flower — a variety of azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) with pink, sweet-smelling flowers, purplish-red at the base
  • potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
  • profit warning — a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected
  • sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
  • self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
  • social welfare — social services provided by a government for its citizens.
  • tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • to follow suit — If people follow suit, they do the same thing that someone else has just done.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • to windward of — advantageously situated with respect to
  • uniflow engine — a double-acting steam engine exhausting from the middle of each cylinder at each stroke so that the motion of the steam from admission to exhaust is continuous in one direction.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • water fountain — a drinking fountain, water cooler, or other apparatus supplying drinking water.
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • well-confirmed — made certain as to truth, accuracy, validity, availability, etc.: confirmed reports of new fighting at the front; confirmed reservations on the three o'clock flight to Denver.
  • well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
  • well-fortified — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
  • wind deflector — an accessory that can be fitted to parts of a vehicle that are often open when driving, such as windows and sunroofs, to prevent the driver and passengers being buffeted by wind as well as reducing noise and keeping out flying debris
  • word formation — the formation of words, for example by adding prefixes or suffixes to roots
  • worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
  • wriggle out of — evade: a duty
  • writ of extent — extent (def 4a).
  • yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.
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