10-letter words containing f, o, l, h
- fluorophor — Alternative form of fluorophore.
- flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
- flutemouth — any of several fish with a tubular snout
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- folklorish — (colloquial) Typical or similar to folklore.
- followship — the practice of doing what other people suggest, rather than taking the lead
- foodaholic — a person having an excessive, often uncontrollable craving for food.
- foodophile — (informal) A food lover.
- foolishest — Superlative form of foolish.
- footlights — Usually, footlights. Theater. the lights at the front of a stage that are nearly on a level with the feet of the performers.
- four flush — a useless poker hand, containing four of a suit and one odd card
- four-flush — to bluff.
- four-wheel — having four wheels.
- freeholder — the owner of a freehold.
- frithstool — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a seat in a church, placed near the altar, for persons who claimed the right of sanctuary.
- full house — a hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair, as three queens and two tens.
- fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
- furloughed — Simple past tense and past participle of furlough.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- gooseflesh — goose bumps.
- half board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- half-blood — the relation between persons having only one common parent.
- half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
- half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- halfhourly — half-hour (def 3).
- harbourful — the amount that a harbour can hold
- healthfood — Alternative spelling of health food.
- high-flown — extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
- hold forth — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- 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.
- horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
- 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.
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- john rolfe — John, 1585–1622, English colonist in Virginia (husband of Pocahontas).