8-letter words containing h, a, l, f
- half pay — half one's regular pay.
- half-cup — half of a cup, equal to 4 fluid ounces (0.1 liter) or 8 tablespoons.
- half-cut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- half-day — the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset: Since there was no artificial illumination, all activities had to be carried on during the day.
- half-lie — something that a person says or writes that they know to be partly untrue
- half-mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- half-pie — poorly planned or conceived
- half-raw — (of meat) only partially cooked
- half-rod — a unit of length equal to 2.75 yards or 8.25 feet (2.52 meters).
- half-wit — a person who is feeble-minded.
- halfback — Football. one of two backs who typically line up on each side of the fullback. the position played by such a back.
- halfbeak — any of several marine fishes of the family Hemiramphidae, having a greatly elongated lower jaw.
- halfcock — The position when the cock of a gun as at the first notch.
- halflife — Alternative spelling of half-life.
- halfling — (in fiction and fantasy) a member of a race of small people.
- halfmoon — the moon when, at either quadrature, half its disk is illuminated.
- halfness — The quality of being half; incompleteness.
- halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
- 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.
- halftone — Also called middle-tone. (in painting, drawing, graphics, photography, etc.) a value intermediate between light and dark.
- halfwits — Plural form of halfwit.
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- handfull — Archaic form of handful.
- handfuls — Plural form of handful.
- handsful — Plural form of handful.
- harfleur — a port in N France, in Seine-Maritime department: important centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 8602 (2005)
- harmfull — Archaic form of harmful.
- hasteful — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hatefull — Obsolete form of hateful.
- hatfield — a town in central Hertfordshire, in SE England: incorporated into (Welwyn Hatfield) 1974.
- haul off — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- hayfield — a field where grass, alfalfa, etc., are grown for making into hay.
- haylofts — Plural form of hayloft.
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- holdfast — something used to hold or secure a thing in place; a catch, hook, clamp, etc.
- khalifah — Dated form of caliph.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- laughful — full of laughter
- layshaft — an auxiliary shaft in a gearbox, running parallel to the main shaft, to and from which drive is transferred to enable varying ratios to be obtained
- lefthand — Alternative form of left-hand.
- 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.
- loathful — Scot. bashful; reluctant.
- makhlouf — Saint Sharbel [shahr-buh l] /ˈʃɑr bəl/ (Show IPA), 1828–98, Lebanese monk: canonized 1977.
- not half — Half is sometimes used in negative statements, with a positive meaning, to emphasize a particular fact or quality. For example, if you say 'he isn't half lucky', you mean that he is very lucky.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- oafishly — In an oafish manner.