11-letter words containing h, e, d, r
- ex cathedra — with authority
- exhilarated — Simple past tense and past participle of exhilarate.
- face-harden — to harden the surface of (metal), as by chilling or casehardening.
- fair-haired — having light-colored hair.
- 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.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to 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.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- food shares — investment shares in food companies
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- forechecked — Simple past tense and past participle of forecheck.
- forereached — Simple past tense and past participle of forereach.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forevouched — previously avowed
- forgathered — Simple past tense and past participle of forgather.
- forge ahead — move forward with determination
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- free-handed — generous; liberal.
- freehearted — Liberal; unrestrained.
- freeholders — Plural form of freeholder.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freewheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of freewheel.
- french door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- frenchified — Simple past tense and past participle of frenchify.
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- friendships — Plural form of friendship.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- garden hose — tube for spraying plants with water
- 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.