15-letter words containing f, i, s, h, e, r
- friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
- life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
- ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
- ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
- ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
- rose of jericho — an Asian plant, Anastatica hierochuntica, of the mustard family, which, after drying and curling up, expands when moistened.
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
- saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
- schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
- self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- the first thing — even one thing
- the first-named — something that is specified or named first
- theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- towers of hanoi — (games) A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- visser 't hooft — Willem Adolf [vil-uh m ah-dawlf] /ˈvɪl əm ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–85, Dutch Protestant clergyman and writer: leader in ecumenical movement.