12-letter words containing f, r, e, h
- firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flash-freeze — quick-freeze.
- flat-earther — a person who adheres to the idea that the earth is flat.
- flegenheimer — Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") 1902–35, U.S. gangster.
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- floor-length — extending to the floor: a floor-length skirt.
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forethoughts — Plural form of forethought.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- forlorn hope — a perilous or desperate enterprise.
- formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- four hundred — the exclusive social set of a city or area.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.