13-letter words containing o, f, s, h
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- foresightless — lacking foresight
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
- foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
- foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- ghost fishing — the continued trapping and killing of marine life by a discarded fishing net floating at sea
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- head of state — the person who holds the highest position in a national government: a meeting of heads of state.
- head of steam — momentum; driving power
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- herefordshire — a former county in W England, now part of Hereford and Worscester.
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- honors of war — special privileges granted to a defeated army, as that of continuing to bear arms
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.
- house of keys — the lower house of the legislature of the Isle of Man.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- housewifeship — the role of a housewife, household management
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- hyposulfurous — of or derived from hyposulfurous acid.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).