10-letter words containing a, f, e, w
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- guineafowl — Alternative spelling of guinea fowl.
- half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- half-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- have a few — to consume several (or too many) alcoholic drinks
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- law french — Anglo-French as used in legal proceedings and lawbooks in England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th century, some terms of which are still in use.
- lawfulness — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- left arrow — (character) The graphic which the 1963 version of ASCII had in place of the underscore character, ASCII 95.
- leftwardly — leftwards
- lie fallow — to remain uncultivated, unused, unproductive, etc. for a time
- life arrow — an arrowlike projectile for carrying a line for use in maritime rescue operations.
- malleefowl — Alternative form of mallee fowl.
- maned wolf — a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number.
- new france — the French colonies and possessions in North America up to 1763.
- newfangled — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
- news flash — flash (def 6).
- 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.
- playfellow — a playmate.
- ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- self-aware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
- 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.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- sweet flag — an aroid marsh plant, Acorus calamus, having swordlike leaves, small greenish flowers, and aromatic roots
- wafer-thin — very thin: a wafer-thin slice.
- waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- wallflower — a person who, because of shyness, unpopularity, or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a party or dance.
- wanrestful — uneasy or restless
- war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
- warble fly — any of several stout, woolly flies of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which produce warbles in cattle and other animals.
- warfighter — A soldier in combat.
- wastefully — In a wasteful manner.
- watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
- water flag — a European iris, Iris pseudacorus, naturalized throughout eastern North America, with blue-green leaves and violet-veined, yellow flowers and growing in moist places.
- water flea — any of various small crustaceans that move about in the water like fleas, as those of the genus Daphnia.
- water leaf — (in Greek architecture and sculpture) a motif of heart-shaped leaves having a conspicuous midrib.
- water-fast — (of a color or dye) resistant to the effects caused by water; not changed or faded by the action of water.
- water-free — containing no water
- watercraft — skill in boating and water sports.
- waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
- 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.
- wax flower — Madagascar jasmine.