12-letter words containing r, e, f, s, h
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
- kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- refresh rate — (hardware) (Or "vertical refresh rate", "vertical scan rate") The maximum number of frames that can be displayed on a monitor in a second, expressed in Hertz. The scan rate is controlled by the vertical sync signal generated by the video controller, ordering the monitor to position the electron gun at the upper left corner of the raster, ready to paint another frame. It is limited by the monitor's maximum horizontal scan rate and the resolution, since higher resolution means more scan lines. Increasing the refresh rate decreases flickering, reducing eye strain, but few people notice any change above 60-72 Hz.
- refreshfully — in a refreshful manner; refreshingly
- refreshingly — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- refreshments — something that refreshes, especially food or drink.
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- refuse chute — a chute in a building which rubbish and waste is thrown down to the main refuse bins, etc
- reichsfuhrer — the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
- schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- sharp-freeze — quick-freeze.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- sheep farmer — sb who raises sheep
- sheet feeder — a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time.