11-letter words containing h, f
- foster home — a household in which a child is raised by someone other than its natural or adoptive parent.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- foulmouthed — using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language; given to filthy or abusive speech.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- fourchettes — Plural form of fourchette.
- fourflusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- fourteenths — Plural form of fourteenth.
- fourth form — the fourth year of study in a school
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fourth-rate — of very low quality, value, or rank
- fox hunting — a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
- fox-hunting — a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
- frame house — a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- francophone — Also, Francophonic [frang-kuh-fon-ik] /ˌfræŋ kəˈfɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). speaking French, especially as a member of a French-speaking population.
- free charge — any electric charge that can be placed on a conductor or on or within a dielectric or that moves freely in space (opposed to polarization charge).
- free church — (sometimes initial capital letters) a church free from state control. Compare established church.
- free flight — unassisted or unconstrained flight, as the flight of a rocket or missile without guidance or after fuel exhaustion or motor cutoff.
- free french — (in World War II) the French movement, organized in London under the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle, that repudiated the 1940 armistice with the Nazis and the government established at Vichy and fought for the liberation of France and the restoration of the republic.
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- free speech — freedom of speech.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- free-handed — generous; liberal.
- freehearted — Liberal; unrestrained.
- freeholders — Plural form of freeholder.
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freethinker — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
- freethought — Alternative spelling of free thought.
- freewheeled — Simple past tense and past participle of freewheel.
- freewheeler — a vehicle that can freewheel.
- freeze-etch — to prepare (material) for the electron microscope by freeze etching.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- freight ton — ton1 (def 2).
- freight-out — Freight-out is the cost of delivering finished goods to a customer.
- freight-ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- french arch — an arch similar to a flat arch, but having voussoirs inclined to the same angle on each side of the center.
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- french chop — a rib chop, usually of lamb, with the meat trimmed from the end of the bone.
- french cuff — a double cuff formed by folding back a wide band at the end of a sleeve, usually fastened by a cuff link.
- french door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french fact — (in Canada) the presence of French Canada as a distinct cultural force within the Confederation
- french flat — a flat that can be raised to or hung from the flies, and that contains practicable doors, windows, etc.
- french foot — Also called knurl toe, scroll foot, whorl foot. a foot of the mid-18th century having the form of a scroll, continuing the leg downward and outward, supported by a shoe.
- french harp — harmonica (def 1).