15-letter words containing f, e, r, h
- deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
- deferred charge — an expenditure shown as a cost of operation carried forward and written off in one or more future periods.
- dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
- disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
- disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
- dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
- droste-hulshoff — Annette Elisabeth Freiin von [ah-net-uh ey-lee-zah-bet frahy-in fuh n] /ɑˈnɛt ə eɪˈli zɑˌbɛt ˈfraɪ ɪn fən/ (Show IPA), 1797–1848, German poet.
- editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
- enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- faint-heartedly — nervously
- fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
- fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
- fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
- faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
- falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
- fallout shelter — protective bunker
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
- feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
- featherstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of featherstitch.
- federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
- ferric chloride — a compound that in its anhydrous form, FeCl 3 , occurs as a black-brown, water-soluble solid; in its hydrated form, FeCl 3 ⋅xH 2 O, it occurs in orange-yellow, deliquescent crystals: used chiefly in engraving, for deodorizing sewage, as a mordant, and in medicine as an astringent and styptic.
- ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
- fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- field of honour — the place or scene of a battle or duel, esp of jousting tournaments in medieval times
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fighting french — Free French.
- figure of eight — figure eight.
- finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
- fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
- fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
- fish restaurant — a restaurant which serves mainly fish
- five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
- flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
- flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
- flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
- flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
- flight engineer — a member of an aircraft crew responsible for the mechanical systems, fueling, and servicing of the craft.
- flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
- flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
- fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
- for that matter — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- for the love of — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- for the present — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- for the sake of — for the good of