16-letter words containing f, a, s, h, o
- functional shift — a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb or the noun fun as an adjective.
- go off the rails — If someone goes off the rails, they start to behave in a way that other people think is unacceptable or very strange, for example they start taking drugs or breaking the law.
- golden handcuffs — payments deferred over a number of years that induce a person to stay with a particular company or in a particular job
- gulf of honduras — an inlet of the Caribbean, on the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize
- hare's-foot fern — a fern, Polypodium aureum, of tropical America, having a brown, scaly rootstock and green or deep bluish-green fronds.
- harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
- homme d'affaires — a businessman.
- horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
- hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
- how's that for…? — is this satisfactory as regards…?
- in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
- john of damascus — Saint, a.d. c675–749, priest, theologian, and scholar of the Eastern Church, born in Damascus.
- kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
- knights of malta — the order of Hospitalers.
- leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
- louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
- make a go of sth — If you say that someone is making a go of something such as a business or relationship, you mean that they are having some success with it.
- make the best of — do what you can
- make the most of — in the greatest quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: to win the most votes.
- man of the house — the male head of a household.
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
- month of sundays — a long time
- nicholas of cusa — 1401–64, German cardinal, philosopher, and mathematician: anticipated Copernicus in asserting that the earth revolves around the sun
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- not the faintest — no idea whatsoever
- on the safe side — as a precaution
- parrot's-feather — a South American water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum, having hairlike pinnate leaves, widely cultivated as an aquarium plant.
- pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
- philip of swabia — 1180?–1208, king of Germany and uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1198–1208 (son of Frederick I).
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- place of worship — religious house: church, temple
- saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
- shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
- soft in the head — stupid or foolish
- soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- state of the art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
- state-of-the-art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
- streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
- sulfamethoxazole — an antimicrobial substance, C 1 0 H 1 1 N 3 O 3 S, used against a variety of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, as in the treatment of certain urinary tract infections and skin infections.