11-letter words containing f, h, o
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
- rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- sam hold of — to collect; gather up
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- school fees — the money paid for a person to go to school
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- school life — the period of your life that you spend at school
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
- shaft house — a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft.
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- ship of war — warship.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
- showing-off — behaviour designed to impress people
- shuffle off — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
- smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- soft cheese — a type of cheese that is made in a relatively short time and has a soft, creamy or almost runny texture
- soft hyphen — a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- soft-headed — foolish; stupid.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description