11-letter words containing h, a, f, i
- fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half relief — mezzo-relievo.
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- han fei-tzu — died 233 b.c, Chinese philosopher and legal theorist.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
- hatchetfish — any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx, and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters, having a silvery, hatchet-shaped body.
- 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.
- have it off — to have sexual intercourse
- head office — headquarters
- hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- 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 fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
- hit the fan — any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
- honorifical — honorific
- host family — family one lodges with
- idaho falls — a city in E Idaho.
- 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
- if anything — on the contrary
- in the face — head on, directly
- infangthief — (in Old English law) the right of a lord of the manor to have jurisdiction over a thief caught within the bounds of his property
- infant-hood — a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk; baby.
- infographic — Often, infographics. a visual presentation of information in the form of a chart, graph, or other image accompanied by minimal text, intended to give an easily understood overview, often of a complex subject: a mass-transit infographic that uses different colors to represent different modes of transportation.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.