11-letter words containing f, r, e, h
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farm cheese — a mild, firm pressed cheese
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- father time — the personification of time as an old man, usually in a white robe, having a white beard, and carrying a scythe.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feather key — a rectangular key connecting the keyways of a shaft and a hub of a gear, pulley, etc., fastened in one keyway and free to slide in the other so that the hub can drive or be driven by the shaft at various positions along it.
- feather rot — a viral disease of birds that causes the feathers to become brittle and break off and the beak and claws to become soft.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- featherless — Having no feathers.
- featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- ferrography — the analysis of iron in lubricants in order to assess the extent of wear in a machine
- festschrift — (often initial capital letter) a volume of articles, essays, etc., contributed by many authors in honor of a colleague, usually published on the occasion of retirement, an important anniversary, or the like.
- fever pitch — a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people: The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- fifth force — a theoretical force in nature in addition to the strong and weak forces, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- fifty-three — a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.
- fighter jet — a jet fighter, or fighter plane propelled by a jet engine
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- fire cherry — pin cherry.
- fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- firefighter — a person who fights destructive fires.
- firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
- fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
- fish farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes
- fish finger — Fish fingers are small long pieces of fish covered in breadcrumbs. They are usually sold in frozen form.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.