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11-letter words containing a, f, g, h

  • heterograft — xenograft.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
  • hua guofeng — 1920?–2008, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1976–80.
  • if anything — on the contrary
  • infangthief — (in Old English law) the right of a lord of the manor to have jurisdiction over a thief caught within the bounds of his property
  • infographic — Often, infographics. a visual presentation of information in the form of a chart, graph, or other image accompanied by minimal text, intended to give an easily understood overview, often of a complex subject: a mass-transit infographic that uses different colors to represent different modes of transportation.
  • leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
  • light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
  • light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
  • magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)
  • nightfaring — journeying at night, travelling abroad by night
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
  • shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
  • shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
  • shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
  • sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • take fright — be scared off
  • the giraffe — the constellation Camelopardalis
  • warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
  • warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
  • wharfingers — Plural form of wharfinger.
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