13-letter words containing w, o, l, f
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- mallow family — the plant family Malvaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having palmately veined, lobed, or compound leaves, sticky juice, often showy five-petaled flowers with stamens united in a column, and fruit in the form of a capsule with several divisions, and including the cotton plant, hibiscus, hollyhock, mallow, okra, and rose of Sharon.
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- monkey flower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Mimulus, of the figwort family, as M. cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower) having spotted flowers that resemble a face.
- overflow flag — overflow bit
- overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
- 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
- rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
- 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
- school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- small forward — a versatile attacking player
- spider flower — cleome
- sulfur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- superpowerful — extremely powerful
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle
- waldorf salad — a salad of celery, diced apples, nuts, and mayonnaise.
- 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.
- wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- water buffalo — a buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, of the Old World tropics, having large, flattened, curved horns: wild populations are near extinction.
- 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
- welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
- well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- well-followed — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- 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.