13-letter words containing a, f, r
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- half-marathon — running: 13-mile footrace
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
- hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
- handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard and fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- hard-and-fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hard-featured — having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- hassenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- head of water — a quantity of water
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- heat transfer — Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one substance or material to another.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- herb of grace — rue2 .
- herb-of-grace — rue2 .
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- honors of war — special privileges granted to a defeated army, as that of continuing to bear arms
- horrification — That which causes horror.
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
- Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- import tariff — a tax or duty imposed on imported goods
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.