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12-letter words containing h, e, r, t, f

  • rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • refresh rate — (hardware)   (Or "vertical refresh rate", "vertical scan rate") The maximum number of frames that can be displayed on a monitor in a second, expressed in Hertz. The scan rate is controlled by the vertical sync signal generated by the video controller, ordering the monitor to position the electron gun at the upper left corner of the raster, ready to paint another frame. It is limited by the monitor's maximum horizontal scan rate and the resolution, since higher resolution means more scan lines. Increasing the refresh rate decreases flickering, reducing eye strain, but few people notice any change above 60-72 Hz.
  • refreshments — something that refreshes, especially food or drink.
  • refuse chute — a chute in a building which rubbish and waste is thrown down to the main refuse bins, etc
  • right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
  • sheet feeder — a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time.
  • shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • shirt-lifter — a homosexual
  • shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
  • stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
  • tail feather — one of the feathers making up a bird's tail
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • the fair sex — women collectively
  • the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
  • the far left — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic change, reform, or revolution designed to promote the greater freedom, power, welfare, or comfort of the common people
  • the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
  • the flickers — the cinema
  • the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair
  • the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
  • the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
  • thereinafter — afterward in that document.
  • third finger — the finger next to the little finger; ring finger.
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • trench fever — a recurrent fever, often suffered by soldiers in trenches in World War I, caused by a rickettsia transmitted by the body louse.
  • trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
  • truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
  • typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
  • unaffrighted — to frighten.
  • unfrightened — not frightened
  • weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
  • weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
  • white finger — a condition of a finger that results in a white appearance caused by a spasm of the blood vessels. It occurs with Raynaud's disease and with the long-term use of percussion tools
  • wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
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