11-letter words containing f, l, e, h
- halfendeale — a half portion of something
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- hall effect — the electromotive force generated in a strip of metal longitudinally conducting an electric current and subjected to a magnetic field normal to its major surface.
- halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
- halo effect — a predisposition to admire all of a person's actions, work, etc., because of an estimable quality or action in the past.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hang a left — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- harvest fly — cicada
- hassle-free — without problems or bother
- hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- have a life — If you say that you have a life, you mean that you have interests and activities, particularly outside your work, which make your life enjoyable and worthwhile.
- health farm — A health farm is a hotel where people go to get fitter or lose weight by exercising and eating special food.
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- heedfulness — The state or quality of being heedful.
- helpfulness — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- high relief — sculptured relief in which volumes are strongly projected from the background.
- higher self — a person's spiritual self, as the focus of many meditation techniques, as opposed to the physical body
- highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- hold in fee — to own; possess
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- holy office — a congregation founded in 1542 to succeed the suppressed Inquisition and entrusted with matters pertaining to faith and morals, as the judgment of heresy, the application of canonical punishment, and the examination of books and prohibition of those held dangerous to faith and morals.
- hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
- hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
- hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
- hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- infield hit — a base hit that does not reach the outfield.
- jellyfishes — Plural form of jellyfish.
- jewelfishes — Plural form of jewelfish.
- killifishes — Plural form of killifish.
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- lanternfish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
- leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.
- leaf sheath — the basal part of a grass leaf that encircles the stem
- leaf-hopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
- leatherfish — a filefish.
- leatherleaf — an evergreen shrub, Chamaedaphne calyculata, of the heath family, having leathery leaves and one-sided clusters of white, bell-shaped flowers, occurring in bogs in North America.
- lecythiform — (biology, mycology) shaped like a bowling pin, a flask, or a bottle.