11-letter words containing h, a, r
- feather rot — a viral disease of birds that causes the feathers to become brittle and break off and the beak and claws to become soft.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- featherless — Having no feathers.
- featherlike — 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.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- ferrography — the analysis of iron in lubricants in order to assess the extent of wear in a machine
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- fish farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
- flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flash harry — a man who likes to dress and behave ostentatiously
- flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- food shares — investment shares in food companies
- foolhardily — In a foolhardy manner.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- forefathers — Plural form of forefather.
- foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
- foremanship — The position of a foreman.
- forereached — Simple past tense and past participle of forereach.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- fort thomas — a city in N Kentucky.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fourth-rate — of very low quality, value, or rank