10-letter words containing h, a, f
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- fringehead — any fish of the genus Neoclinus, characterized by a row of fleshy processes on the head, as N. blanchardi (sarcastic fringehead) of California coastal waters.
- frog march — to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.
- frog-march — If you are frog-marched somewhere, someone takes you there by force, holding you by the arms or another part of your body so that you have to walk along with them.
- gayfeather — Many of the plant of the genus Liatris, native to North America, including Mexico, east of the continental divide.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- ghastfully — in a ghastful manner
- goatfishes — Plural form of goatfish.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- grassfinch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- hairy frog — a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
- 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 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 hitch — a knot or hitch made by forming a bight and passing the end of the rope around the standing part and through the bight.
- 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 story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- 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 twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- 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-blind — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- half-blood — the relation between persons having only one common parent.
- half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- 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-crazy — somewhat crazy or insane
- 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-dazed — partly dazed or confused
- half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-eaten — a past participle of eat.
- half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- half-hardy — having moderate resistance to cold temperatures.
- half-hitch — a knot or hitch made by forming a bight and passing the end of the rope around the standing part and through the bight.
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.