11-letter words containing f, a, s, h
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- harvest fly — cicada
- harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
- hassle-free — without problems or bother
- hatchetfish — any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx, and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters, having a silvery, hatchet-shaped body.
- hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- host family — family one lodges with
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- 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
- joseph raff — Joseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- lanternfish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- leaf sheath — the basal part of a grass leaf that encircles the stem
- leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
- leatherfish — a filefish.
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
- matt finish — a dull finish or surface, as opposed to a shiny one
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- sam hold of — to collect; gather up
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.