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13-letter words containing f, i, l, h, e

  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • free-wheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
  • gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
  • hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
  • half the time — If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • half-finished — ended or completed.
  • half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
  • half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • 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.
  • heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • marsh trefoil — buck bean.
  • middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
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