10-letter words containing h, a, i, l, f
- half-light — light that is about half its customary brightness, or that is partially dimmed or obscured: the half-light of early dawn; a room in half-light.
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- 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-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
- horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
- in a flash — very quickly, in an instant
- 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.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- 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.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- 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
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- phialiform — having a form like that of a saucer
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- thalliform — resembling a thallus
- ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
- unfaithful — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
- upflashing — flashing or flaring up
- wadi halfa — a former town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: now under the waters of Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in S Egypt.
- wheatfield — A wheat field; a field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.
- white flag — an all-white banner or piece of cloth, used as a symbol of surrender or truce.