13-letter words containing f, i, h

lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
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
lucifer match — friction match.
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 mischief — cause trouble
make off with — take away
marsh trefoil — buck bean.
match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
mirror finish — a smooth highly polished surface produced on metal by mechanical or electrolytic polishing or lapping
mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
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.
night fighter — an interceptor aircraft used for operations at night
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
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.
paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
piece of shit — despicable person
piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
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
prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
professorship — the office or post of a professor.

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