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13-letter words containing i, f, t, h

  • match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
  • match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
  • mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mythification — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
  • nanofortnight — (jargon)   (Adelaide University) 10^-9 fortnights or about 1.2 milliseconds. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals. See microfortnight, attoparsec, and micro-.
  • night fighter — an interceptor aircraft used for operations at night
  • ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
  • north african — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
  • off the chain — wildly entertaining
  • off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
  • off with you! — go away! depart!
  • on the fiddle — If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
  • on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
  • oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
  • palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
  • photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
  • piece of shit — despicable person
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
  • put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • return flight — a flight going back
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
  • scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
  • self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • self-thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • sergeant fish — cobia
  • seventy-fifth — next after the seventy-fourth; being the ordinal number for 75.
  • shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
  • ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
  • single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
  • sprint finish — the end of a long race in which competitors speed up as they approach the finish line
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