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

  • 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.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
  • professorship — the office or post of a professor.
  • queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.
  • reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
  • rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • shaft feather — one of the two fletchings on an arrow
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the better of — having recovered from
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