12-letter words containing r, h, n, e
- ethnocentric — Evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture.
- ethnographer — One who practices ethnography.
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- ethnohistory — The branch of anthropology concerned with the history of peoples and cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- everchanging — Which changes frequently and, presumably, will continue to do so forever.
- examinership — the office or function of an examiner
- exheredation — A disinheriting; disherison.
- exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
- exhilarating — Making one feel very happy, animated, or elated; thrilling.
- exhilaration — A feeling of excitement, happiness, or elation.
- exhortations — Plural form of exhortation.
- extinguisher — Anything that extinguishes something; but especially a fire extinguisher.
- fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- finger tight — made as tight as possible by hand
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- firefighting — a person who fights destructive fires.
- firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- flegenheimer — Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") 1902–35, U.S. gangster.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- floor-length — extending to the floor: a floor-length skirt.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- forlorn hope — a perilous or desperate enterprise.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- four hundred — the exclusive social set of a city or area.