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13-letter words containing f, u, t, h

  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
  • methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • 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.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
  • not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
  • off with you! — go away! depart!
  • out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • out of humour — in a bad mood
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
  • rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
  • rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • the beautiful — the quality of beauty
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • think much of — to have a high opinion of
  • thirty-fourth — next after the thirty-third; being the ordinal number for 34.
  • three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • trout fishing — angling to catch trout
  • twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
  • unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • unhurtfulness — the state of being unhurtful
  • unthriftiness — the quality or condition of being unthrifty
  • unthriftyhead — thriftlessness
  • watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
  • what about/of — You use what about or what of when you introduce a new topic or a point which seems relevant to a previous remark.
  • white truffle — an edible fungus, Tuber magnatum pico, occurring in certain parts of northern Italy, and considered a great delicacy.
  • word of mouth — informal oral communication: The rumor spread rapidly by word of mouth.
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