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

  • penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
  • ratchet effect — intermittent growth, increase, expansion, or the like: the ratchet effect of defense expenditures.
  • rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • relief pitcher — a pitcher brought into a game to replace another pitcher, often in a critical situation.
  • rest of esther — a book of the Old Testament Apocrypha consisting of verses in the Septuagint text of the book of Esther that are not in the Hebrew text
  • right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
  • safety harness — apparatus with straps to secure sb
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • self-slaughter — suicide.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
  • shift register — (in digital circuits) a register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right
  • shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
  • software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • street fighter — a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.
  • sulfuric ether — ether (def 1).
  • take the floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • the better off — those with more money
  • the federalist — a set of 85 articles by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published in 1787 and 1788, analyzing the Constitution of the U.S. and urging its adoption
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the heretofore — the past
  • the home front — the civilian population
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • the-federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • theater of war — the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.
  • theatre of war — the area of air, sea and land that is directly involved in war
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