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13-letter words containing f, i, n, s, h

  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • 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.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
  • ghost fishing — the continued trapping and killing of marine life by a discarded fishing net floating at sea
  • giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
  • half-finished — ended or completed.
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • 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.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
  • infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
  • 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.
  • match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
  • mirror finish — a smooth highly polished surface produced on metal by mechanical or electrolytic polishing or lapping
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • 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.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
  • photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
  • 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
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
  • self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
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