15-letter words containing h, a, y, f
- acanthus family — the plant family Acanthaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, clusters of tubular bracted flowers, and seeds sometimes dispersed by exploding fruit, including the acanthus, caricature, and shrimp plant.
- amaranth family — the plant family Amaranthaceae, typified by herbaceous, often weedy plants having alternate or opposite leaves and small, chaffy flowers without petals in brightly colored dense clusters, including the cockscomb, pigweed, and amaranth.
- amery ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the SW Indian Ocean, bordered by Enderby Land on the N and American Highland on the W.
- at the mercy of — in the power of
- bay of campeche — the SW part of the Gulf of Mexico
- butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
- charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
- chief secretary — (in Britain) the second most senior Treasury post, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- day of the dead — an annual celebration to honor the spirits of the dead, observed in Mexico and other Latin American countries on November 1 and 2, concurrently with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.
- day of the lord — Also called Day of Yahweh. (in Old Testament eschatology) a day of final judgment. Amos 5:18–21; Ezek. 30.
- demythification — the act of demythifying
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- faint-heartedly — nervously
- fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
- fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
- fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
- fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fetishistically — in a fetishistic manner
- fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
- flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
- fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
- flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- funny handshake — an elaborate handshake, indicating that someone belongs to a certain social group, etc
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
- have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
- house of prayer — house of God.
- hydraulic fluid — a fluid, usually of low viscosity, as oil, used in a hydraulic system.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
- lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
- mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
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