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10-letter words containing h, a, l, f

  • 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.
  • 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-meant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
  • half-miler — a half-mile race.
  • half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
  • half-plane — the part of the plane on one side of a straight line of infinite length in the plane.
  • half-plate — a size of plate measuring 61⁄2 × 41⁄4 inches
  • half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
  • half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
  • half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
  • half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
  • half-shaft — The half-shaft or half axle is the shaft in a vehicle along which power is sent from the final drive to one driven wheel or a pair of wheels.
  • half-share — a share, as in profits, equal to one half.
  • half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
  • half-staff — half-mast.
  • half-stuff — (in a manufacturing process) any material half formed, especially partly prepared pulp for making paper.
  • 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-track — a caterpillar tread that runs over and under the rear or driving wheels of a vehicle but is not connected with the forward wheels: used especially on military vehicles.
  • half-truth — a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
  • 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.
  • halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
  • halfhourly — half-hour (def 3).
  • 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.
  • harbourful — the amount that a harbour can hold
  • hasslefree — (informal) troublefree.
  • hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
  • healthfood — Alternative spelling of health food.
  • heartfully — In a heartful manner.
  • horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
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