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10-letter words containing f, l, e, h

  • furloughed — Simple past tense and past participle of furlough.
  • goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
  • gooseflesh — goose bumps.
  • hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
  • half eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., discontinued in 1929, equal to five dollars.
  • half frame — a photograph taking up half the normal area of a frame on a particular film, taken esp on 35-millimetre film
  • half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • half shell — either of the halves of a double-shelled creature, as of an oyster, clam, or other bivalve mollusk.
  • half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
  • half tiger — a five-rand coin
  • 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-alive — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
  • half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
  • half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
  • half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
  • half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
  • half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
  • half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.
  • half-dazed — partly dazed or confused
  • half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
  • half-eaten — a past participle of eat.
  • half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
  • half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
  • half-meant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
  • half-miler — a half-mile race.
  • half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
  • half-plane — the part of the plane on one side of a straight line of infinite length in the plane.
  • half-plate — a size of plate measuring 61⁄2 × 41⁄4 inches
  • half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
  • half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
  • half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • half-share — a share, as in profits, equal to one half.
  • 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.
  • halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
  • halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
  • hasslefree — (informal) troublefree.
  • hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
  • healthfood — Alternative spelling of health food.
  • heartfully — In a heartful manner.
  • high flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
  • high-flyer — a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.
  • holofernes — (in the Book of Judith) a general, serving Nebuchadnezzar, who was killed by Judith.
  • home field — A sports team's home field is their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams.
  • horseflesh — the flesh of a horse.
  • horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
  • 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.
  • hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
  • house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
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