12-letter words containing h, o
- fast fashion — the reproduction of highly fashionable clothes at high speed and low cost
- fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
- feather shot — fine bean shot.
- fed to death — bored or annoyed
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
- feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
- fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- field-holler — a cry employing falsetto, portamento, and sudden changes of pitch, used in African-American work songs, later integrated into the techniques of the blues
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
- fight it out — a battle or combat.
- fight shy of — bashful; retiring.
- fighting top — one of the gun platforms on the lower masts of sailing men-of-war, used in attacking the crew of an enemy ship with swivel guns and muskets
- first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
- firth of tay — the estuary of the River Tay on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Length: 40 km (25 miles)
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- fishing pole — a long, slender rod of wood or other material with a line and hook fastened to one end for use in catching fish.
- fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
- fishing worm — an earthworm.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- floodlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.
- floor polish — a substance used to polish floors
- floor-length — extending to the floor: a floor-length skirt.
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
- fluorography — photofluorography.
- fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- focal length — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.