13-letter words containing f, l, e, h
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- half the time — If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
- half-finished — ended or completed.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- high fidelity — sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
- homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
- hubble effect — redshift
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- 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