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13-letter words containing o, f, h, a, n

  • john of gaunt — John of, John of Gaunt.
  • lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
  • lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
  • maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • 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-.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
  • norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
  • 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.
  • not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • off the chain — wildly entertaining
  • off the wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
  • offhandedness — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • show of hands — an indication of approval, disapproval, volunteering, etc., on the part of a group of persons, usually made by each assenting person raising his or her hand.
  • 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.
  • soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
  • soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • tea-of-heaven — a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.
  • the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
  • the pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • unfashionably — in an unfashionable manner
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
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