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

  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • flutter wheel — a waterwheel at the bottom of a chute, turned by the falling water.
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • for one thing — the first reason is
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
  • for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • form the fool — to play the fool or behave irritatingly
  • formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
  • forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
  • foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
  • foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • frank whittleSir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • frankenthalerHelen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.
  • free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
  • freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • freight train — a train of freight cars.
  • french letter — a condom.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
  • full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
  • half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
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