11-letter words containing h, i, t, r
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-third — next after the fifty-second; being the ordinal number for 53.
- fifty-three — a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.
- fighter jet — a jet fighter, or fighter plane propelled by a jet engine
- film rights — the rights purchased from the author of a work that enable a film maker to make a film of it
- filthy rich — foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.
- 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.
- 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 light — dawn.
- first night — opening night.
- first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
- first thing — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
- 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.
- flush right — even or level, as with a surface; forming the same plane: The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.
- for nothing — freely, free
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forest hill — a town in N Texas.
- forethinker — someone who forethinks
- forthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- fortnightly — occurring or appearing once a fortnight.
- forty-eight — a cardinal number, 40 plus 8.
- forty-fifth — next after the forty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 45.
- forty-ninth — next after the forty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 49.
- forty-sixth — next after the forty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 46.
- forty-third — next after the forty-second; being the ordinal number for 43.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- free flight — unassisted or unconstrained flight, as the flight of a rocket or missile without guidance or after fuel exhaustion or motor cutoff.
- free weight — a weight used for weightlifting, as a dumbbell, whose motion is not constrained by external apparatus.
- 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.
- 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.
- frighteners — Plural form of frightener.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frightfully — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.