9-letter words containing h, a, l, f
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flashiest — Superlative form of flash.
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- flashness — Quality of being flash.
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flat arch — an arch having a more or less flat intrados and extrados with voussoirs radiating from a center below the arch.
- flat head — a flat screw head.
- flatheads — Plural form of flathead.
- flaughter — a fluttering
- flex-cash — flexdollars.
- flinthead — the wood stork, Mycteria americana.
- flipchart — A flipchart is a stand with large sheets of paper which is used when presenting information at a meeting.
- floorhead — the upper side of a floor timber on a boat or ship
- flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- fluffhead — (pejorative) A silly or vacuous person; an airhead.
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- fomalhaut — a star of the first magnitude and the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- foolhardy — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
- glassfish — any small, transparent marine, brackish, or freshwater fishes of the genus Chanda (or Ambassis), native to Africa and the Indo-Pacific region and popular in home aquariums.
- hail from — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- half bath — a bathroom containing only a toilet and wash basin; powder room.
- half boot — a boot reaching about halfway to the knee.
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- half deck — (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.
- half dime — a silver coin of the U.S., equal to five cents, issued 1794–1805 and 1829–73.
- half fare — the sum charged or paid for conveyance in a bus, train, aeroplane, etc, by children, pensioners, etc, when it is equal to half the cost of the price paid by a regular passenger
- half hose — short hose; socks.
- half note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- half pint — half of a pint, equal to 8 fluid ounces (1 cup) or 16 tablespoons (0.2 liter).
- half rest — a rest equal in time value to a half note.
- half size — any size in women's garments designated by a fractional number from 12½ through 24½, designed for a short-waisted, full figure.
- half step — Music. semitone.
- half term — a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- half tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half tone — semitone.
- half-acre — a common measure of area: in the U.S. and U.K., 1 acre equals 4,840 square yards (4,047 square meters) or 0.405 hectare; 640 acres equals one square mile.
- half-ball — a contact in billiards, etc, in which the player aims through the centre of the cue ball to the edge of the object ball, so that half the object ball is covered
- half-blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- half-boot — a boot reaching about halfway to the knee.
- half-butt — a snooker cue longer than an ordinary cue, usually used with a long rest
- half-cell — a single electrode, generally a metal, immersed in a container filled with an electrolyte, and having a specific electrical potential for a given combination of electrode and electrolyte.
- half-clad — partially dressed
- half-cock — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half-dead — no longer living; deprived of life: dead people; dead flowers; dead animals.
- half-deaf — partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- half-deck — a deck on an old ship of war that is situated below the upper deck and extends aft from the mainmast