12-letter words containing h, e, r
- export house — a company that does not manufacture goods but is instead concerned solely with the financing or handling of their export
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- extrahepatic — Originating or occurring outside the liver.
- extremophile — A microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity, or chemical concentration.
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
- faith healer — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
- faith-healer — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
- falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
- father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
- feather shot — fine bean shot.
- feather star — a free-swimming crinoid.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
- female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
- ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
- ferris wheel — an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve.
- festschrifts — Plural form of festschrift.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- field-holler — a cry employing falsetto, portamento, and sudden changes of pitch, used in African-American work songs, later integrated into the techniques of the blues
- fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
- figure eight — figure eight.
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- finger tight — made as tight as possible by hand
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- firefighters — Plural form of firefighter.
- firefighting — a person who fights destructive fires.
- firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
- firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.