13-letter words containing f, r, e, h
- 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
- homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- 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.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lucifer match — friction match.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- modern french — the French language since c1600.
- 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.
- night fighter — an interceptor aircraft used for operations at night
- 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.
- norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
- 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.
- office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- oxford theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 1550–1604.
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
- perfect rhyme — rhyme of two words spelled or pronounced identically but differing in meaning, as rain, reign; rich rhyme.
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing