12-letter words containing f, e, r, h, o
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forethoughts — Plural form of forethought.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- forlorn hope — a perilous or desperate enterprise.
- formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- four hundred — the exclusive social set of a city or area.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- free thought — thought unrestrained by deference to authority, tradition, or established belief, especially in matters of religion.
- freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- french congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- fresh out of — having just run out of supplies of
- frighten off — scare away
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hard-favored — South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
- head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- heart of oak — a brave person
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- hereinbefore — before in this document, statement, etc.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hit the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.