13-letter words containing w, o, r, l
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- edward lorenz — (person) A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
- fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- fellow member — someone who is a member of the same organization or society as you
- fellow worker — someone you work with
- field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
- flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
- flower garden — plot for flowers
- flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
- flower seller — a person who sells flowers for a living, usually from a stall in the street
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
- foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
- forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- gallows frame — headframe.
- gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- granular snow — a rare form of opaque precipitation consisting of very tiny ice crystals
- hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
- hornswoggling — Present participle of hornswoggle.
- hourly worker — an employee who is paid an hourly rate rather than a fixed salary
- howler monkey — Central American simian variety
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.