11-letter words containing h, i, e, r
- exhilarates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exhilarate.
- exhilarator — a person who, or thing which, exhilarates
- exhorbitant — Misspelling of exorbitant.
- exhortation — An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.
- exhortative — (comparable) Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner.
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fair-haired — having light-colored hair.
- fairweather — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
- fan the air — to strike at but fail to hit something
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- father time — the personification of time as an old man, usually in a white robe, having a white beard, and carrying a scythe.
- featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- festschrift — (often initial capital letter) a volume of articles, essays, etc., contributed by many authors in honor of a colleague, usually published on the occasion of retirement, an important anniversary, or the like.
- fever pitch — a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people: The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- fifth force — a theoretical force in nature in addition to the strong and weak forces, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- fifty-three — a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.
- fighter jet — a jet fighter, or fighter plane propelled by a jet engine
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- fire cherry — pin cherry.
- fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- firefighter — a person who fights destructive fires.
- firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
- fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
- fish farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes
- fish finger — Fish fingers are small long pieces of fish covered in breadcrumbs. They are usually sold in frozen form.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
- fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
- fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
- foremanship — The position of a foreman.