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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.
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