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13-letter words containing f, i, h, o

  • house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
  • housewifeship — the role of a housewife, household management
  • hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • 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.
  • ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • in good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
  • in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
  • in the offing — the more distant part of the sea seen from the shore, beyond the anchoring ground.
  • in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
  • in the way of — similar to, like
  • infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
  • 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 wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
  • korf, richard — Richard Korf
  • leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • 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.
  • lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • logical shift — (programming)   (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • make off with — take away
  • marsh trefoil — buck bean.
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • mirror finish — a smooth highly polished surface produced on metal by mechanical or electrolytic polishing or lapping
  • mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mythification — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
  • nanofortnight — (jargon)   (Adelaide University) 10^-9 fortnights or about 1.2 milliseconds. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals. See microfortnight, attoparsec, and micro-.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
  • north african — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • off the chain — wildly entertaining
  • off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
  • off with you! — go away! depart!
  • 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.
  • on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
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