13-letter words containing t, h, e, f, a
- hatchet-faced — having a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
- head of state — the person who holds the highest position in a national government: a meeting of heads of state.
- head of steam — momentum; driving power
- head of water — a quantity of water
- healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- heat transfer — Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one substance or material to another.
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
- in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
- in the way of — similar to, like
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- make off with — take away
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
- of all others — above all others
- off the chain — wildly entertaining
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- off the wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- 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.
- play the fool — behave in a silly way
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- safety helmet — protective hard hat
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.