12-letter words containing f, i, h
- khyber knife — a long Indian knife having a triangular, single-edged blade with the handle set off center toward the back.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- match-fixing — the act of arranging the outcome of a sports match prior to its being played
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mosquitofish — any of several fishes that feed on mosquito larvae, as Gambusia affinis, found in the southeastern U.S., now introduced into other parts of the world for mosquito control.
- mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- needlefishes — Plural form of needlefish.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- night office — the office for matins.
- ninety-fifth — next after the ninety-fourth; being the ordinal number for 95.
- north africa — 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.
- north-facing — facing towards the north
- of o's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- off the grid — not using any of the services, such as bank accounts, public utilites, etc, that allow a person's activities to be monitored by the authorities
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- old faithful — one of the best known geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- on the fritz — on the fritz, not in working order: Our TV went on the fritz last night.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
- photo finish — a finish of a race in which two or more contestants are so close to the finish line that reference to a photograph of the finish is necessary to determine the winner.
- photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
- photo-finish — If the end of a race is a photo-finish, two or more of the competitors cross the finishing line so close together that a photograph of the finish has to be examined to decide who has won.
- photofission — nuclear fission induced by the absorption of a high-energy photon.
- pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
- pinch effect — the tendency of an electric conductor or stream of charged particles to constrict, caused by the action of a magnetic field that is produced by a flow of electricity.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- prizefighter — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.