13-letter words containing t, r, o, h, f
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- 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.
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
- the better of — having recovered from
- the comforter — the Holy Spirit: John 14:26
- the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
- the father of — a very large, severe, etc, example of a specified kind
- the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- the worst off — those people who are in the worst situation
- the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thereinbefore — before that
- think more of — to have a higher opinion of
- thirty-fourth — next after the thirty-third; being the ordinal number for 34.
- three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.
- threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- to fall short — If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.
- to hold forth — If you hold forth on a subject, you speak confidently and for a long time about it, especially to a group of people.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
- typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
- unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
- welfare hotel — a hotel in which people receiving welfare assistance are temporarily housed until permanent quarters become available.
- west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- word of mouth — informal oral communication: The rumor spread rapidly by word of mouth.
- writ of right — English Law. a writ directed to a person who presided over a feudal court, directing him to render justice between his vassals in a dispute as to ownership of land: usually led to a trial in a royal court if feudal ownership was involved.