12-letter words containing f, o, l, h
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- hofmannsthal — Hugo von [hoo-goh fuh n] /ˈhu goʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1874–1929, Austrian poet, playwright, and librettist.
- hog's fennel — any of several Eurasian umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Peucedanum, esp P. officinale, having clusters of small whitish flowers
- hold out for — to wait patiently or uncompromisingly for (the fulfilment of one's demands)
- hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
- homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
- horrifically — causing horror.
- horrifyingly — In a horrifying manner.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- howlin' wolf — (Chester Arthur Burnett) 1910–76, U.S. blues singer.
- hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- in behalf of — in / on behalf of, as a representative of or a proxy for: On behalf of my colleagues, I address you tonight.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- not half bad — very good
- of all the x — You use all in expressions like of all the cheek or of all the luck to emphasize how angry or surprised you are at what someone else has done or said.
- off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- old faithful — one of the best known geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- on behalf of — in / on behalf of, as a representative of or a proxy for: On behalf of my colleagues, I address you tonight.
- on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- over-helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
- photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
- pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shoo-fly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.