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13-letter words containing h, a, l, f, r

  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
  • hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
  • heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
  • heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
  • hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
  • honorifically — In a honorific manner.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
  • 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.
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • marsh trefoil — buck bean.
  • merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • mother of all — a female parent.
  • of all others — above all others
  • off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • to fall short — If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.
  • traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
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