13-letter words containing s, h, a, r, e, f
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- hassenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- heat transfer — Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one substance or material to another.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- 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
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- 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.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- the rastafari — Rastafarians collectively
- weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
- west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.