13-letter words containing h, e, r, t, f
- half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
- hard-featured — having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- head of water — a quantity of water
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- heat transfer — Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one substance or material to another.
- helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
- lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lucifer match — friction match.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- mother of god — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- night fighter — an interceptor aircraft used for operations at night
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- oxford theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 1550–1604.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
- perfect rhyme — rhyme of two words spelled or pronounced identically but differing in meaning, as rain, reign; rich rhyme.
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
- reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned