9-letter words containing f, i, l, h, e
- highflier — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
- highflyer — Alternative form of highflier.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- hold fire — If you hold fire in a situation, you delay before taking action.
- home life — a person's life at home; private life
- ice shelf — an ice sheet projecting into coastal waters so that the end floats.
- jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- jewelfish — a brightly colored cichlid fish, Hemichromis bimaculatus, native to Africa: popular in home aquariums.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lichfield — a town in SE Staffordshire, in central England, N of Birmingham: birthplace of Samuel Johnson.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- line fish — fish caught by lines rather than nets
- lithified — Simple past tense and past participle of lithify.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- nightlife — the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion, as at a nightclub, theater, or the like.
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- richfield — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- 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.
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- selfishly — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- sheffield — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- shelf ice — ice forming part of or broken from an ice shelf.
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shellfire — the firing of explosive shells or projectiles.
- shellfish — an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- swellfish — puffer (def 2).
- tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
- the filth — the police
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- thieflike — like a thief
- unselfish — not selfish; disinterested; generous; altruistic.
- whifflery — frivolity