13-letter words containing o, f, h, e, r
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- modern french — the French language since c1600.
- 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.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- mother of god — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- 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.
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- oxford theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 1550–1604.
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.
- reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- 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-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.
- rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
- rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- 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
- short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.