9-letter words containing f, i, t, e, h
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- heftiness — The property of being hefty.
- hen fruit — a hen's egg or eggs.
- infighter — A person who indulges in infighting.
- intefadeh — Alternative spelling of intifada.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lithified — Simple past tense and past participle of lithify.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- 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 theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- off-white — white mixed with a small amount of gray, yellow, or other light color.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- 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.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shift key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
- sweetfish — a sweet-tasting omnivorous fish, native to Japan
- tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
- the fiend — the devil; Satan
- the filth — the police
- the mafia — an international secret organization founded in Sicily, probably in opposition to tyranny. It developed into a criminal organization and in the late 19th century was carried to the US by Italian immigrants
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- thief ant — a small red ant, Solenopsis molesta, of North America, that nests in the walls of the nest of a larger species from which it steals eggs and young larvae.
- thieflike — like a thief
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- tigerfish — a large, voracious, freshwater game fish, Hydrocyenus goliath, of African rivers.
- unshifted — (of a keyboard shift key) not pressed or activated.
- white fir — a tall, narrow fir, Abies concolor, of western North America, yielding a soft wood used for lumber, pulp, boxes, etc.
- white fox — Arctic fox.
- whiteface — a Hereford.
- whitefish — any of several fishes of the family Coregonidae, inhabiting northern waters of North America and Eurasia, similar to the trout but having a smaller mouth and larger scales. Compare lake whitefish, round whitefish.