13-letter words containing h, a, i, f
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half the time — If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- half-finished — ended or completed.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- horrification — That which causes horror.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- in 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.
- in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
- in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
- in the way of — similar to, like
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- korf, richard — Richard Korf
- leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
- make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
- make mischief — cause trouble