13-letter words containing r, o, s, e, h
- ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
- ethnographers — Plural form of ethnographer.
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- exhibitioners — Plural form of exhibitioner.
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- express coach — a fast coach which goes from one place to another directly or with very few stops
- extremophiles — Plural form of extremophile.
- factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
- 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
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- fisher of men — an evangelist
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- 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.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- 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.
- 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
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- get somewhere — to make progress
- get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.