13-letter words containing a, f, r, e, h
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shaft feather — one of the two fletchings on an arrow
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
- the far right — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic conservatism or reaction, based generally on a belief that things are better left unchanged
- the father of — a very large, severe, etc, example of a specified kind
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- the rastafari — Rastafarians collectively
- the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
- unthriftyhead — thriftlessness
- water feather — a water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum.
- weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
- welfare check — a social security payment
- welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
- west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- white feather — a symbol of cowardice.