7-letter words containing f, i, h
- hogfish — a large wrasse, Lachnolaimus maximus, of the western Atlantic Ocean, used for food.
- hoof it — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- hoofing — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- horrify — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
- hot fix — (storage) Novell, Inc.'s term for the feature of their network file server operating system, Novell NetWare, which handles errors in disk write operations. The OS re-reads every block it writes to disk while it holds the data to be written in memory. In the case of an error, the data block is written to a spare area on the disk. The feature lost much of its importance with the widespread use of hard disk drives with built-in error correction and bad block re-mapping.
- hotwife — (slang) A married female swinger; a wife who has sex with men other than her husband, with the husband's approval.
- huffily — easily offended; touchy.
- huffing — a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment: Just because you disagree, don't walk off in a huff.
- huffish — peevish; irritable.
- huffkin — a kind of muffin or tea-cake made mainly in Kent
- huswife — (obsolete) A housewife.
- icefish — A scaleless Antarctic fish of pallid appearance with spiny gill covers and a snout shaped like a duck’s bill.
- in half — one of two equal or approximately equal parts of a divisible whole, as an object, or unit of measure or time; a part of a whole equal or almost equal to the remainder.
- infight — to box, or otherwise fight, at close quarters; to engage in infighting
- inkfish — (colloquial) cuttlefish.
- isfahan — a city in central Iran: the capital of Persia from the 16th into the 18th century.
- jawfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Opisthognathidae, common along sandy bottoms of warm seas.
- jewfish — any of several very large fishes, especially of the family Serranidae, as the giant sea bass and the groupers Epinephelus itajara and E. nigritus, found in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
- khalifa — caliph.
- kuffieh — kaffiyeh.
- kufiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- leftish — somewhat left-wing
- lithify — to change (sediment) to stone or rock.
- lubfish — a stockfish
- lyefish — lutefisk.
- mayfish — striped killifish.
- mudfish — any of various fishes that live in muddy waters, as the bowfin or mummichog.
- muffish — incompetent, stupid
- mythify — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- oarfish — any long, ribbon-shaped, silvery fish of the genus Regalecus, of deep tropical waters, having a red dorsal fin along the spine that rises to a crest, and reaching a length of 30 feet (9 meters).
- oilfish — a snake mackerel, Ruvettus pretiosus, commonly inhabiting deep, marine waters.
- ooftish — any kind of money or cash
- outfish — to catch more fish than
- panfish — any small, freshwater nongame food fish, as a perch or sunfish, usually eaten pan-fried.
- pigfish — a grunt, Orthopristis chrysoptera, living in waters off the Atlantic coast of the southern U.S.
- pinfish — a small fish, Lagodon rhomboides, of the porgy family, inhabiting bays of the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
- pithful — full of pith; pithy; succinct
- pupfish — any of several tiny, stout killifishes of the genus Cyprinodon, inhabiting marshy waters in arid areas of western North America: several species are endangered.
- qadhafi — Muammar (Muhammad) al- or el- [moo-ah-mahr,, al,, el] /muˈɑ mɑr,, æl,, ɛl/ (Show IPA), 1942–2011, Libyan army colonel and political leader: chief of state 1969–2011.
- raffish — mildly or sometimes engagingly disreputable or nonconformist; rakish: a matinee idol whose raffish offstage behavior amused millions.
- ragfish — a deep-sea fish of the family Icosteidae, inhabiting the North Pacific, having a very flexible body owing to its soft, highly cartilaginous skeleton.
- ratfish — a chimaera, Hydrolagus colliei, of the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California, having a ratlike tail.
- redfish — Also called ocean perch, rosefish. a North Atlantic rockfish, Sebastes marinus, used for food.
- refight — to fight (someone or something) again
- sawfish — a large, elongated ray of the genus Pristis, living along tropical coasts and lowland rivers, with a bladelike snout bearing strong teeth on each side.
- selfish — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- shafi'i — one of the four schools of Islamic law, founded by al-Shafiʿi.
- sheriff — the law-enforcement officer of a county or other civil subdivision of a state.
- shifter — a person or thing that shifts.
- shipful — the amount a ship can carry or hold