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19-letter words containing f, i, s, h, a, r

  • surface effect ship — a large, ship-size air cushion vehicle operated over water.
  • taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
  • the disenfranchised — people who are deprived of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship
  • the first amendment — in the US the part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion" or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
  • the pilgrim fathers — the English Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower to New England, where they founded Plymouth Colony in SE Massachusetts (1620)
  • the roaring forties — the areas of ocean between 40° and 50° latitude in the S Hemisphere, noted for gale-force winds
  • theory of equations — the branch of mathematics dealing with methods of finding the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • thread-line fishing — spinning (def 3).
  • tricks of the trade — expert techniques
  • whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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