13-letter words containing f, h, o, l, e
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
- heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
- helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
- homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.
- lose sight of — no longer see
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- off-the-shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- on the fiddle — If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- play the fool — behave in a silly way
- reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.