13-letter words containing f, l, e, s, h
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
- furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
- gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- 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-finished — ended or completed.
- 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
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- 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.
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- 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).
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- 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.
- 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
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- 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.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- 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.
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- 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.