13-letter words containing h
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- french letter — a condom.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- 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.
- 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 away — cause sb/sth to run away
- 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.
- frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- 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
- from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
- full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
- galactic halo — a spheroidal aggregation of globular clusters, individual stars, dust, and gas that surrounds the Galaxy
- galactorrhoea — (British spelling) alternative spelling of galactorrhea.
- 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.
- gallocatechol — An antioxidant that contains catechin, found in food.
- gallop rhythm — an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by three clear sounds in each beat, resembling the sound of a horse's gallop.
- 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.
- game-changing — having the potential to change significantly the outcome of something
- gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
- gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
- garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
- garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- 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.