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12-letter words containing f, e, r, h

  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
  • self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • sharp-freeze — quick-freeze.
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • sheep farmer — sb who raises sheep
  • sheet feeder — a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time.
  • shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
  • shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • shirt-lifter — a homosexual
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
  • stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
  • swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
  • tail feather — one of the feathers making up a bird's tail
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • the fair sex — women collectively
  • the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
  • the far left — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic change, reform, or revolution designed to promote the greater freedom, power, welfare, or comfort of the common people
  • the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
  • the flickers — the cinema
  • the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair
  • the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
  • the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
  • thereinafter — afterward in that document.
  • third finger — the finger next to the little finger; ring finger.
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • trench fever — a recurrent fever, often suffered by soldiers in trenches in World War I, caused by a rickettsia transmitted by the body louse.
  • trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
  • truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
  • typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
  • un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
  • unaffrighted — to frighten.
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