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11-letter words containing l, w

  • excise laws — laws relating to taxes on dutiable items
  • eyebrowless — having no eyebrows
  • facial wash — a beauty product which cleanses the skin of the face
  • fallow deer — A fallow deer is a small deer that has a reddish coat which develops white spots in summer.
  • fallow-deer — a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat.
  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • fellowships — Plural form of fellowship.
  • fiddle away — to waste (time)
  • field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
  • fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
  • fifth wheel — a horizontal ring or segment of a ring, consisting of two bands that slide on each other, placed above the front axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane.
  • file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
  • fillet weld — a weld with a triangular cross section joining two surfaces that meet in an interior right angle.
  • finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
  • first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
  • flag-waving — an ostentatiously emotional display of patriotism or factionalism.
  • flake white — lead white.
  • flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
  • flesh wound — a wound that does not penetrate beyond the flesh; a slight or superficial wound.
  • flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
  • floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
  • floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
  • flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
  • flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
  • flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
  • flower shop — a shop where flowers and pot plants are sold
  • flower show — a display or exhibition, often competitive, of flowers and plants
  • flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
  • floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
  • flowingness — the quality of being flowing
  • flowthrough — Flow (through a system or process).
  • fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
  • fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
  • flying wing — an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.
  • foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
  • folk wisdom — wisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
  • follow shot — Also, following shot. Movies, Television. a traveling shot made as the camera moves along with the subject: a follow shot of the buffalo stampede, taken from a low-flying helicopter.
  • follow suit — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
  • followed by — You use followed by to say what comes after something else in a list or ordered set of things.
  • fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
  • fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
  • freewheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of freewheel.
  • freewheeler — a vehicle that can freewheel.
  • front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
  • front vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
  • frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
  • galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
  • gallowglass — a follower and supporter of or a soldier owing allegiance to an Irish chief.
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