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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • 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.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
  • 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.
  • gangster chic — a cinematic or literary genre which seeks to glamorize the criminal underworld
  • garden shears — shears used for gardening
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • garter stitch — a basic knitting pattern that produces an evenly pebbled texture on both sides of the work, created by consistently knitting or purling every stitch of every row.
  • gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • gram's method — a method of staining and distinguishing bacteria, in which a fixed bacterial smear is stained with crystal violet, treated with Gram's solution, decolorized with alcohol, counterstained with safranine, and washed with water.
  • grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
  • grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
  • grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
  • gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
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