13-letter words containing f, i, h, o
- oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- piece of shit — despicable person
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- 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.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- 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.
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- show signs of — indicate possibility of
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
- soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
- soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
- thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
- the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
- the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
- thereinbefore — before that
- think less of — to have a lower opinion of
- think more of — to have a higher opinion of
- think much of — to have a high opinion of
- thirty-fourth — next after the thirty-third; being the ordinal number for 34.
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout