12-letter words containing f, r, e, h
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- in the frame — If someone is in the frame for something such as a job or position, they are being considered for it.
- irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
- kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
- khyber knife — a long Indian knife having a triangular, single-edged blade with the handle set off center toward the back.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- 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.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- off the grid — not using any of the services, such as bank accounts, public utilites, etc, that allow a person's activities to be monitored by the authorities
- off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- on the fritz — on the fritz, not in working order: Our TV went on the fritz last night.
- orthoformate — an ester of orthoformic acid.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- over-helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- 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
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- prizefighter — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
- proof theory — (logic) The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- refresh rate — (hardware) (Or "vertical refresh rate", "vertical scan rate") The maximum number of frames that can be displayed on a monitor in a second, expressed in Hertz. The scan rate is controlled by the vertical sync signal generated by the video controller, ordering the monitor to position the electron gun at the upper left corner of the raster, ready to paint another frame. It is limited by the monitor's maximum horizontal scan rate and the resolution, since higher resolution means more scan lines. Increasing the refresh rate decreases flickering, reducing eye strain, but few people notice any change above 60-72 Hz.
- refreshfully — in a refreshful manner; refreshingly
- refreshingly — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- refreshments — something that refreshes, especially food or drink.
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- refuse chute — a chute in a building which rubbish and waste is thrown down to the main refuse bins, etc
- reichsfuhrer — the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
- safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
- schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.