14-letter words containing o, f, i, a, h
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
- height of land — a watershed
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- holland finish — an oil and sizing or starch finish applied to cotton fabrics to increase their opacity and strength.
- horn of africa — north-east African region
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in the face of — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
- instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
- isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
- out of fashion — no longer popular
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- rafraichissoir — a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates.
- raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
- the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
- the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
- total fighting — a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
- well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.