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13-letter words containing h, s, a

  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
  • fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flash-forward — 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.
  • flashed glass — clear glass flashed with a thin layer of colored glass or a coating of metallic oxide.
  • flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
  • foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • friar's chair — frailero.
  • frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • galah session — an occasion on which people from remote areas converse with each other by radio
  • galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
  • gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
  • galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
  • gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • garden shears — shears used for gardening
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • garter stitch — a basic knitting pattern that produces an evenly pebbled texture on both sides of the work, created by consistently knitting or purling every stitch of every row.
  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • gastrorrhagia — (medical) A hemorrhage from the stomach, also known as a gastric hemorrhage.
  • gastrorrhaphy — The suture of a perforation of the stomach.
  • genital phase — the final stage of psychosexual development, in which a person achieves an affectionate, mature relationship with a sexual partner.
  • geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
  • get so (that) — to reach the point or state where
  • get the shaft — to be tricked or cheated
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