13-letter words containing r, e, f, s, h
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- 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.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- river fishing — the sport of fishing in rivers
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- 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.
- schwenkfelder — a member of a Protestant group that emigrated in 1734 from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania, where they organized the Schwenkfelder Church.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- self-strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shaft feather — one of the two fletchings on an arrow
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- 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.
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- 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.