10-letter words containing h, a, f
- heart-free — not in love.
- heartfully — In a heartful manner.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- homografts — Plural form of homograft.
- horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- in a flash — very quickly, in an instant
- in fashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- in feather — feathered
- infanthood — Infancy.
- infrahuman — less than human; subhuman.
- interfaith — of, operating, or occurring between persons belonging to different religions: an interfaith service.
- intrafaith — Taking place within or relevant to a single faith community.
- jackshafts — Plural form of jackshaft.
- java finch — a finchlike weaverbird, Padda oryzivora, of southeastern Asia, having gray plumage tinged with pink on the belly, often kept as a cage bird.
- la flesche — Susette (Inshta Theumba"Bright Eyes") 1854–1903, U.S. author, Native American activist, and lecturer.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- law french — Anglo-French as used in legal proceedings and lawbooks in England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th century, some terms of which are still in use.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leechcraft — The art of healing.
- left heart — the half of the heart containing the left ventricle and left atrium, which supply oxygenated blood to all parts of the body
- lefthanded — Alternative spelling of left-handed.
- lefthander — Alternative spelling of left-hander.
- life coach — a person who advises clients on how to solve their problems and reach their goals in life: A life coach can help you make the right decisions in your career.
- lifehacker — One who uses lifehacks.
- lift shaft — the long vertical space through which a lift travels
- light face — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- light-fast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lightfaced — Written, printed or drawn in lightface using a font that has a low ration of ink to white space. The opposite of boldfaced.
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- lizardfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- loan-shift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- low 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)
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- main shaft — the principal shaft of a motor, transmission, etc. (distinguished from jackshaft).
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- marsh fern — a fern, Thelypteris palustris, having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- mineshafts — Plural form of mineshaft.
- misfashion — To form or fashion wrongly.
- mowrah fat — a yellow, semifluid fat expressed from the seeds of several trees of the genus Madhuca, used in making soap and as an adulterant in butter.
- multiflash — (of a photographic image) created using several flashes in quick succession in order to depict the successive stages of a movement or action sequence
- neufchatel — a soft, white cheese similar to cream cheese, made from whole or partly skimmed milk in Neufchâtel, a town in N France.