13-letter words containing f, o, r, t, h
- full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- half-marathon — running: 13-mile footrace
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- head of water — a quantity of water
- heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
- helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- horrification — That which causes horror.
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lord of hosts — Jehovah; God.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- mother of god — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- nanofortnight — (jargon) (Adelaide University) 10^-9 fortnights or about 1.2 milliseconds. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals. See microfortnight, attoparsec, and micro-.
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
- north african — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- out of humour — in a bad mood
- oxford theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 1550–1604.
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
- reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- 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.
- rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
- sawtooth roof — a roof composed of a series of small parallel roofs of triangular cross section, usually asymmetrical with the shorter slope glazed.