13-letter words containing f, i, t, e, h
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- kite fighting — (in Malaysia) a game in which one player attempts to cut the string of his opponent's kite with the string of his own
- leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- 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.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lose sight of — no longer see
- lucifer match — friction match.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- make off with — take away
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- night fighter — an interceptor aircraft used for operations at night
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- off the chain — wildly entertaining
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- on the fiddle — If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- piece of shit — despicable person
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- return flight — a flight going back
- right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
- right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
- right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
- rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
- scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- 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.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.