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14-letter words containing f, l, e, s, h

  • half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • holy of holies — a place of special sacredness.
  • house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
  • kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
  • middle flemish — the Flemish language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
  • moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
  • on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
  • ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
  • self-enriching — to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.: Commerce enriches a nation.
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • sheffield lake — a town in N Ohio.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • shoshone falls — waterfall on the Snake River, in S Ida.: c. 200 ft (61 m)
  • sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
  • sigh of relief — audible breath when difficulty is over
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • sulfuric ether — ether (def 1).
  • sulphur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
  • uncheerfulness — (of a person) lack of cheerfulness; gloominess; unhappiness
  • unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
  • unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
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