16-letter words containing f, h, o
- month of sundays — a long time
- name of the game — the essential element, consideration, or ultimate purpose; key: Profit is the name of the game in business.
- nicholas of cusa — 1401–64, German cardinal, philosopher, and mathematician: anticipated Copernicus in asserting that the earth revolves around the sun
- no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
- north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- not the faintest — no idea whatsoever
- not the foggiest — no idea whatsoever
- nothing short of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- of the nature of — having the essential character of; like
- off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- off-the-shoulder — not covering the shoulder
- old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
- on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
- on the defensive — If someone is on the defensive, they are trying to protect themselves or their interests because they feel unsure or threatened.
- on the safe side — as a precaution
- on the stroke of — punctually at
- on-the-spot fine — a fine that is charged immediately upon being caught and found guilty of a crime
- one for the book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- one for the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
- order of the day — the agenda for an assembly, meeting, group, or organization.
- orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
- out of character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- out of the money — If an investment is out of the money, it would be a loss if it was sold.
- out of the woods — the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.
- ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
- paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
- parrot's-feather — a South American water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum, having hairlike pinnate leaves, widely cultivated as an aquarium plant.
- pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
- philip of swabia — 1180?–1208, king of Germany and uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1198–1208 (son of Frederick I).
- phosphor fatigue — screen saver
- place of worship — religious house: church, temple
- rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- refresher course — a study course serving as a review of previous education.
- refreshment room — a room in a railway station where food and drink was served
- rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
- right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rule of the road — any of the regulations concerning the safe handling of vessels under way with respect to one another, imposed by a government on ships in its own waters or upon its own ships on the high seas.
- saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
- sheffer's stroke — a function of two sentences, equivalent to the negation of their conjunction, and written p|q (p and q are both not true) where p,q, are the arguments: p|q is false only when p,q are both true. It is possible to construct all truth functions out of this one alone
- ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
- shortfin corvina — See under corvina.