13-letter words containing f, l, e, h
- 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).
- loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.
- lose sight of — no longer see
- lucifer match — friction match.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- off-the-shelf — readily available from merchandise in stock.
- office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- on the fiddle — If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- play the fool — behave in a silly way
- reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- 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.
- rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
- rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
- safety helmet — protective hard hat
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.