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16-letter words containing o, f, s, h, r

  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • homme d'affaires — a businessman.
  • horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
  • hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
  • house of worship — house of God.
  • how's that for…? — is this satisfactory as regards…?
  • hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable, water-soluble, cumulatively poisonous gas, H 2 S, having the odor of rotten eggs: used chiefly in the manufacture of chemicals, in metallurgy, and as a reagent in laboratory analysis.
  • in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
  • in the throes of — If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it.
  • kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • leasehold reform — reform of the law relating to leasehold property
  • liver of sulphur — a mixture of potassium sulphides used as a fungicide and insecticide and in the treatment of skin diseases
  • louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
  • manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
  • marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
  • matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
  • no hard feelings — If you say ' no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • nothing short of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • off-the-shoulder — not covering the shoulder
  • on the stroke of — punctually at
  • parrot's-feather — a South American water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum, having hairlike pinnate leaves, widely cultivated as an aquarium plant.
  • pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
  • phosphor fatigue — screen saver
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • refresher course — a study course serving as a review of previous education.
  • refreshment room — a room in a railway station where food and drink was served
  • saccharification — to convert (starch) into sugar.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
  • sheffer's stroke — a function of two sentences, equivalent to the negation of their conjunction, and written p|q (p and q are both not true) where p,q, are the arguments: p|q is false only when p,q are both true. It is possible to construct all truth functions out of this one alone
  • shortfin corvina — See under corvina.
  • shoulder surfing — a form of credit-card fraud in which the perpetrator stands behind and looks over the shoulder of the victim as he or she withdraws money from an automated teller machine, memorizes the card details, and later steals the card
  • soft furnishings — home fabrics
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • state of the art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
  • state-of-the-art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
  • streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
  • the best part of — most of
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
  • the years of sth — the period when sth happened or existed
  • thomas jefferson — Joseph, 1829–1905, U.S. actor.
  • throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • throw oneself on — to rely entirely upon
  • to stop short of — If someone stops short of doing something, they come close to doing it but do not actually do it.
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • way of the cross — stations of the cross.
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