9-letter words containing f, i, h
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lightfoot — (poetic) Light-footed.
- line fish — fish caught by lines rather than nets
- lithified — Simple past tense and past participle of lithify.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- match-fit — in good physical condition for competing in a match
- midflight — Occurring in the middle portion of a flight.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- mirthfull — Archaic form of mirthful.
- mischiefe — Obsolete spelling of mischief.
- mischiefs — Plural form of mischief.
- mousefish — sargassumfish.
- nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
- nightfire — a fire burned at night e.g. a campfire
- nightlife — the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion, as at a nightclub, theater, or the like.
- of choice — an act or instance of choosing; selection: Her choice of a computer was made after months of research. His parents were not happy with his choice of friends.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- off-white — white mixed with a small amount of gray, yellow, or other light color.
- oily fish — any variety of fish, such as the sardine, mackerel, salmon or trout; that has oils throughout its body rather than stored solely in the liver
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pinchfist — a miser
- pitch for — If someone is pitching for something, they are trying to persuade other people to give it to them.
- pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- plightful — filled with distress
- pollyfish — parrotfish.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- queenfish — a silvery and bluish drum, Seriphus politus, inhabiting shallow waters along the coast of California.
- quillfish — a fish, Ptilichthys goodei, of the Bering Sea, having an eellike body with long, many-rayed fins.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- razorfish — any of several wrasses of the genus Hemipteronatus having a compressed, sharp-edged head, as H. novacula (pearly razorfish) of the West Indies and the Mediterranean Sea.
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- refurbish — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- refurnish — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- richfield — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- right off — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rodfisher — an angler or a person who fishes with a fishing rod
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- scaldfish — a small European flatfish, Arnoglossus laterna, covered with large fragile scales: family Bothidae
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- selfishly — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.