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10-letter words containing w, o, f

  • old fellow — old chap.
  • on welfare — the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
  • outflowing — Flowing out.
  • playfellow — a playmate.
  • powderpuff — a soft, feathery ball or pad, as of cotton or down, for applying powder to the skin.
  • powerfully — having or exerting great power or force.
  • profitwise — from the point of view of profit
  • ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
  • reform jew — a Jew who adheres to a system of religious worship adapted from Orthodox Judaism to meet the demands of contemporary life, frequently simplifying or rejecting traditional religious law and custom.
  • scapa flow — an area of water off the N coast of Scotland, in the Orkney Islands: British naval base; German warships scuttled 1919.
  • scrub fowl — megapode.
  • self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • self-wrong — wrong done to oneself.
  • shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
  • snow fence — a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.
  • soft power — the ability to achieve one's goals without force, esp by diplomacy, persuasion, etc
  • soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
  • starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
  • strandwolf — brown hyena.
  • streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
  • stuff gown — a woollen gown worn by a barrister who has not taken silk
  • swift moth — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
  • switch off — the act or process of switching off a power supply, light source, appliance, etc.
  • switch-off — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
  • sword fern — any fern of the genus Nephrolepis, especially N. exaltata, characterized by sword-shaped, pinnate fronds, a common houseplant.
  • swordcraft — skill in or the art of swordplay.
  • swordproof — able to resist the stroke of a sword
  • tug of war — an athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other over a line.
  • tug-of-war — an athletic contest between two teams at opposite ends of a rope, each team trying to drag the other over a line.
  • twelvefold — having twelve sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
  • twentyfold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
  • twinflower — either of two slender, creeping, evergreen, caprifoliaceous plants, Linnaea borealis, of Europe, or L. americana, of North America, having pink or purplish nodding flowers borne in pairs on threadlike stalks.
  • two folds' — a unit of stage scenery consisting of two flats hinged together.
  • two-fisted — ready for or inclined to physical combat.
  • unfellowed — without a companion; unmatched; unmated
  • unfollowed — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • unfrowning — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
  • unfurrowed — (of a person's face) without the deep folds which appear in the skin when someone is annoyed, unhappy, or confused
  • unpowerful — having or exerting great power or force.
  • upwards of — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
  • waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
  • wagon roof — barrel vault.
  • wallflower — a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
  • war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
  • warm front — a transition zone between a mass of warm air and the colder air it is replacing.
  • waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
  • waterfront — land on the edge of a body of water.
  • waterproof — impervious to water.
  • wave front — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
  • wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
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