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13-letter words containing h, o, f, e

  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
  • rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
  • short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
  • show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • tea-of-heaven — a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.
  • the better of — having recovered from
  • the comforter — the Holy Spirit: John 14:26
  • the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
  • the father of — a very large, severe, etc, example of a specified kind
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
  • the pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  • the worst off — those people who are in the worst situation
  • the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • thereinbefore — before that
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • think more of — to have a higher opinion of
  • three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.
  • threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
  • to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
  • to the effect — with the purport or meaning
  • twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
  • typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
  • unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • wall of death — (at a fairground) a giant cylinder round the inside walls of which a motorcyclist rides
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
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