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13-letter words containing r, e, s, h

  • extinguishers — Plural form of extinguisher.
  • extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
  • false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
  • false-hearted — having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.
  • farmer cheese — a cheese made by pressing together the soft white curds of whole milk or partly skimmed milk, similar in texture to dry cottage cheese.
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fast ethernet — (networking)   A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. The relevant standards are 100BaseT, 100BaseFX and 100BaseVG.
  • father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
  • feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • feinschmecker — gourmet.
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
  • fisher of men — an evangelist
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flesh peddler — a prostitute.
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • 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.
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