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16-letter words containing f, i, s, h

  • on the defensive — If someone is on the defensive, they are trying to protect themselves or their interests because they feel unsure or threatened.
  • on the safe side — as a precaution
  • on-the-spot fine — a fine that is charged immediately upon being caught and found guilty of a crime
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
  • phase difference — the difference between two sinusoidally varying quantities that have the same frequency, measured either as an angle or a time
  • philip of swabia — 1180?–1208, king of Germany and uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1198–1208 (son of Frederick I).
  • phosphor fatigue — screen saver
  • physical fitness — good physical condition
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • prince's feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • prince's-feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • put sb/sth first — If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.
  • quick as a flash — If you say that someone reacts to something quick as a flash, you mean that they react to it extremely quickly.
  • saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
  • safety mechanism — a psychological or physiological response in an individual that protects the individual from harm
  • scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
  • schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • schreiner finish — a lustrous surface imparted to a fabric by schreinerizing.
  • sea fish farming — the farming of saltwater fish
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • sheffield shield — (in Australia) the former name for the trophy of the annual interstate cricket competition
  • shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
  • ship of the line — a former sailing warship armed powerfully enough to serve in the line of battle, usually having cannons ranged along two or more decks; battleship.
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • soft furnishings — home fabrics
  • soft in the head — stupid or foolish
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • spiny-rayed fish — any of various fishes, as basses and perches, that have sharp, often pointed and usually rigid fin spines.
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
  • thallium sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Tl 2 SO 4 , used chiefly as an insecticide and rodenticide.
  • the fact remains — You say the fact remains that something is the case when you want to emphasize that the situation must be accepted.
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the first family — a President's family
  • the first fruits — The first fruits or the first fruit of a project or activity are its earliest results or profits.
  • the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the welsh office — (formerly) a department of the British government with responsibility for Welsh policies. It was replaced by the Wales office in 1999.
  • the-little-foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
  • theatre-francais — Comédie Française.
  • to lose sight of — If you lose sight of an important aspect of something, you no longer pay attention to it because you are worrying about less important things.
  • trailing fuchsia — a shrub, Fuchsia procumbens, of the evening primrose family, native to New Zealand, having long-stalked leaves and drooping, orange-and-purple flowers, used in hanging baskets.
  • two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
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