13-letter words containing f, a, i, r, h
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
- free reaching — sailing on a free reach.
- freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
- freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
- freight train — a train of freight cars.
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- friar's chair — frailero.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
- frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- 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 mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- 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.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- 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.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- horrification — That which causes horror.
- 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.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- korf, richard — Richard Korf
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- nanofortnight — (jargon) (Adelaide University) 10^-9 fortnights or about 1.2 milliseconds. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals. See microfortnight, attoparsec, and micro-.
- north african — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- 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.