10-letter words containing f, i, h
- half twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- half-alive — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
- half-blind — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- half-hitch — a knot or hitch made by forming a bight and passing the end of the rope around the standing part and through the bight.
- half-light — light that is about half its customary brightness, or that is partially dimmed or obscured: the half-light of early dawn; a room in half-light.
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- half-title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
- half-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- han fei zu — died 233 bc, Chinese diplomat and philosopher of law
- handicraft — manual skill.
- hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- have a fit — become angry, upset
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- high flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- high-flown — extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
- high-flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- high-proof — containing a high percentage of alcohol: high-proof spirits.
- highflying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
- hippogriff — a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.
- hit it off — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- home field — A sports team's home field is their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams.
- home fries — pan-fried potatoes
- honorifics — Plural form of honorific.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
- horrifying — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
- horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
- horsethief — Alternative spelling of horse thief.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hotfoot it — a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- humgruffin — a terrible or repulsive person
- humidified — to make humid.
- humidifier — a device for increasing the amount of water vapor in the air of a room or building, consisting of a container for water and a vaporizer.
- humidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humidify.
- hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
- in a flash — very quickly, in an instant