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12-letter words containing w, o, l, f

  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
  • fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
  • frost hollow — a depression in a hilly area in which cold air collects, becoming very cold at night
  • full forward — an attacking player who plays in the centre of the forward line
  • full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
  • gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
  • globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
  • half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
  • half-forward — any of three forwards positioned between the centre line and the forward line
  • hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
  • howlin' wolf — (Chester Arthur Burnett) 1910–76, U.S. blues singer.
  • in full flow — Someone who is in full flow is talking easily and continuously and seems likely to go on talking for some time.
  • jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
  • jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
  • law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
  • newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
  • nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
  • off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
  • off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
  • overflow bit — (architecture)   A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
  • overflow pdl — (jargon)   The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • 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.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sloop of war — (formerly) a sailing or steam naval vessel having cannons on only one deck.
  • 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.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • unfollowable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
  • unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
  • waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
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