13-letter words containing h
- fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- food shopping — shopping to buy food
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
- foot the bill — pay the costs
- foot-in-mouth — (of a statement) inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- 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
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- 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.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- foresightless — lacking foresight
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- 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.
- 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.
- foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- 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.
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frank chapman — Frank Michler [mik-ler] /ˈmɪk lər/ (Show IPA), 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.
- frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
- frankenthaler — Helen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.
- free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
- free reaching — sailing on a free reach.
- free-wheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
- 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.
- freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
- freight train — a train of freight cars.