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13-letter words containing h, o, r, t

  • esthesiometer — an instrument for measuring the sensitivity of the sense of touch, esp. one for testing how far apart two points pressed against the skin have to be for the points to be felt as separate
  • ethchlorvynol — A sedative and hypnotic drug used to treat insomnia.
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnocultural — Relating to or denoting a particular ethnic group.
  • ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
  • ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
  • event horizon — the surface around a black hole enclosing the space from which electromagnetic radiation cannot escape due to gravitational attraction. For a non-rotating black hole, the radius is proportional to the mass of the black hole
  • exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
  • exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
  • exothermicity — (chemistry, physics) The release of heat during an exothermic reaction.
  • extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floor-through — occupying the entire depth of a building: a floor-through apartment.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • for one thing — the first reason is
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
  • for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • form the fool — to play the fool or behave irritatingly
  • formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • fort huachuca — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Arizona, SE of Tucson.
  • fort monmouth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E central New Jersey, SE of Red Bank; site of signal school.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
  • forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
  • foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
  • foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
  • from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
  • full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
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