11-letter words containing h, a, t, r, e
- eye-catcher — something that especially attracts one's attention
- fairweather — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
- fan the air — to strike at but fail to hit something
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- father time — the personification of time as an old man, usually in a white robe, having a white beard, and carrying a scythe.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- 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.
- feather key — a rectangular key connecting the keyways of a shaft and a hub of a gear, pulley, etc., fastened in one keyway and free to slide in the other so that the hub can drive or be driven by the shaft at various positions along it.
- 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.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
- flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- forefathers — Plural form of forefather.
- foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- fourth-rate — of very low quality, value, or rank
- freehearted — Liberal; unrestrained.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- french fact — (in Canada) the presence of French Canada as a distinct cultural force within the Confederation
- french flat — a flat that can be raised to or hung from the flies, and that contains practicable doors, windows, etc.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- ftp archive — archive site
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- gangsterish — (informal) Gangsterlike.
- garden path — paved walkway
- garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
- garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
- gas lighter — device: produces flame