12-letter words containing f, i, h, o
- fishing worm — an earthworm.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- floodlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.
- floor polish — a substance used to polish floors
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- forthrightly — In a forthright manner.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- frighten off — scare away
- get off with — kiss
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- gloss finish — a reflective or shiny surface, usually on a photograph but also sometimes on metal, paper, paint, etc
- goliath frog — the largest living frog, Rana goliath, which occurs in the Congo region of Africa and can grow to a length of 30 centimetres
- griffin-hood — (in India and the East) a newcomer, especially a white person from a Western country.
- half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- hereinbefore — before in this document, statement, etc.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- high fashion — haute couture.
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hit the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.