15-letter words containing f, r, e, h
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
- heterofullerene — (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
- high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
- hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- hour after hour — continuously for many hours
- house of prayer — house of God.
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfemininity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
- imperfect-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- in (the) future — You use in future when saying what will happen from now on, which will be different from what has previously happened. The form in the future is sometimes used instead, especially in American English.
- in fine feather — 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.
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
- knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- legion of honor — a French order of distinction instituted in 1802 by Napoleon with membership being granted for meritorious civil or military services.
- life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
- maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
- make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- make the effort — try
- man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- moment of truth — the moment in a bullfight at which the matador is about to make the kill.
- mother of pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
- mother-of-pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
- mother-of-thyme — a branched, woody, prostrate plant, Thymus serpyllum, of the mint family, native to Eurasia and northern Africa, having wiry stems that root at the joints and small, purplish flowers.
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- of the order of — having an approximately specified size or quantity
- off the trolley — Describes the behaviour of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually crash or abort. See glitch, bug, deep space.
- old father time — time personified
- on the order of — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
- on the trail of — If you are on the trail of a person or thing, you are trying hard to find them or find out about them.