12-letter words containing f, i, s, h, o
- high fashion — haute couture.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mosquitofish — any of several fishes that feed on mosquito larvae, as Gambusia affinis, found in the southeastern U.S., now introduced into other parts of the world for mosquito control.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- of o's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- photo finish — a finish of a race in which two or more contestants are so close to the finish line that reference to a photograph of the finish is necessary to determine the winner.
- photo-finish — If the end of a race is a photo-finish, two or more of the competitors cross the finishing line so close together that a photograph of the finish has to be examined to decide who has won.
- photofission — nuclear fission induced by the absorption of a high-energy photon.
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- scorpionfish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- shaving foam — lather used for shaving
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shoo-fly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- short shrift — a brief time for confession or absolution given to a condemned prisoner before his or her execution.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- soufflé dish — A dish for making souffles
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
- this side of — If you say that something will not happen this side of a date or event, you mean that it will not happen before that date or event.
- to fight shy — If you fight shy of something, you try very hard to avoid it.
- ufo sighting — the sighting of a UFO
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration