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13-letter words containing f, i, h

  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
  • help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
  • herefordshire — a former county in W England, now part of Hereford and Worscester.
  • hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
  • high fidelity — sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • honorifically — In a honorific manner.
  • horrification — That which causes horror.
  • host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.
  • hottentot fig — a succulent plant, Mesembryanthemum edule, of southern Africa, having a capsular fruit containing edible pulp: family Aizoaceae
  • 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
  • hunting knife — a large, sharp knife, usually with a handle shaped to fit a firm grip and a blade with a slight curve toward the tip, that is used to skin and cut up game, or sometimes to dispatch it.
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • 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.
  • hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • 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 mid-flight — during a flight; whilst airborne
  • 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.
  • kite fighting — (in Malaysia) a game in which one player attempts to cut the string of his opponent's kite with the string of his own
  • 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.
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • life-changing — having major impact on sb
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • light fitting — fixture for attaching a lamp
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
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