14-letter words containing h, f
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- feminine rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
- fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
- fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- field of honor — the scene of a battle or duel.
- field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- fifth position — a position similar to the first position, but with one foot in front, the heel and toe of the front foot adjacent to the toe and heel of the back foot.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- fighting chair — a chair fastened to the deck at the stern of a seagoing fishing boat for use by an angler in landing a large fish.
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- finance charge — interest or a fee charged for borrowing money or buying on credit.