11-letter words containing a, l, f
- half-gallon — a half of a gallon, equal to 2 quarts (1.9 liters).
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- half-length — something that is only half a full length or height, especially a portrait that shows only the upper half of the body, including the hands.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- half-nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- half-sleeve — a sleeve that reaches to around the elbow
- half-volley — (in tennis, racquets, etc.) a stroke in which the ball is hit the moment it bounces from the ground.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- half-yearly — Half-yearly means happening in the middle of a calendar year or a financial year.
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- halfendeale — a half portion of something
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- hall effect — the electromotive force generated in a strip of metal longitudinally conducting an electric current and subjected to a magnetic field normal to its major surface.
- halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
- halo effect — a predisposition to admire all of a person's actions, work, etc., because of an estimable quality or action in the past.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hang a left — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- harvest fly — cicada
- hassle-free — without problems or bother
- hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- have a life — If you say that you have a life, you mean that you have interests and activities, particularly outside your work, which make your life enjoyable and worthwhile.
- health farm — A health farm is a hotel where people go to get fitter or lose weight by exercising and eating special food.
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- 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.
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- honorifical — honorific
- host family — family one lodges with
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- idaho falls — a city in E Idaho.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.