12-letter words containing h, f, m
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- from scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- full-mouthed — (of cattle, sheep, etc.) having a complete set of teeth.
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- gemeinschaft — an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.
- graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
- graham wafer — a cracker intended to aid digestion.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- hall of fame — a national shrine in New York City commemorating the names of outstanding Americans.
- handcraftman — handicraftsman.
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- heath family — the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- hi-fi system — a complete system of high-quality sound-reproducing equipment
- hill farming — the activity and business of having a hill farm
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- hofmannsthal — Hugo von [hoo-goh fuh n] /ˈhu goʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1874–1929, Austrian poet, playwright, and librettist.
- homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
- hopper frame — a window frame having one or more upper sashes hinged at the bottoms and opening inward.
- huffman code — Huffman coding
- human safari — an organized tour that takes tourists to unfamiliar places where they can observe the lifestyle of indigenous or other local people: human safaris to remote tribal communities; a human safari through the slums of Mumbai.
- humification — the formation of humus.
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
- hydroforming — the production of high-octane aromatic compounds for motor fuels by catalytic reforming of naphthas in the presence of hydrogen.
- in the frame — If someone is in the frame for something such as a job or position, they are being considered for it.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- match-fixing — the act of arranging the outcome of a sports match prior to its being played
- meet halfway — to compromise with
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mosquitofish — any of several fishes that feed on mosquito larvae, as Gambusia affinis, found in the southeastern U.S., now introduced into other parts of the world for mosquito control.
- mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
- no match for — If one person or thing is no match for another, they are unable to compete successfully with the other person or thing.
- off the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- orthoformate — an ester of orthoformic acid.
- out of humor — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
- rachmaninoff — Sergei Wassilievitch [sur-gey vuh-seel-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1943, Russian pianist and composer.