8-letter words containing h, a, i, f
- flatfish — any fish of the order Heterosomata (Pleuronectiformes), including the halibut, sole, flounder, etc., having a greatly compressed body and swimming on one side, with both eyes on the upper side in the adult.
- flattish — somewhat flat.
- forhaile — to distress
- frailish — reasonably frail
- frankish — of or relating to the Franks.
- fravashi — the soul of a dead ancestor.
- freakish — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- fuchsias — Plural form of fuchsia.
- goatfish — any tropical and subtropical marine fish of the family Mullidae, having a pair of long barbels below the mouth.
- grayfish — a name used in marketing for any of several American sharks, especially the dogfishes of the genus Squalus.
- hadfield — Sir Robert Abbott, 1858–1940, English metallurgist and industrialist.
- haffling — Present participle of haffle.
- halafian — of or belonging to the Neolithic culture chiefly of northern Syria, dating to the fifth millennium b.c. and characterized by adobe dwellings and polychrome pottery decorated with animal designs and geometric patterns.
- half-lie — something that a person says or writes that they know to be partly untrue
- half-pie — poorly planned or conceived
- half-wit — a person who is feeble-minded.
- halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
- halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
- halfpipe — Alternative form of half-pipe.
- halftime — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halfwits — Plural form of halfwit.
- hangfire — a delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze.
- hatfield — a town in central Hertfordshire, in SE England: incorporated into (Welwyn Hatfield) 1974.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- headfish — ocean sunfish.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- in faith — indeed; really
- infobahn — information superhighway.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- khalifah — Dated form of caliph.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- manshift — the work accomplished by one person in one shift
- misfaith — Lack of faith; distrust.
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.
- on faith — through trust; without proof or evidence
- sailfish — any of several large scombroid game fishes of the genus Istiophorus, such as I. albicans (Atlantic sailfish), of warm and tropical seas: family Istiophoridae. They have an elongated upper jaw and a long sail-like dorsal fin
- saltfish — salted cod
- sandfish — either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific, that live in sand or mud.
- scarfish — a fish in the family Scaridae
- sea fish — a fish that lives in salt water
- shafting — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- soapfish — any of several serranid fishes of the genus Rypticus, producing a body mucus that gives the skin a soapy quality, as R. saponaceus, inhabiting shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- toadfish — any of several thick-headed, wide-mouthed fishes of the family Batrachoididae, as Opsanus tau (oyster toadfish) ranging along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- wallfish — a snail, Helix pomatia