9-letter words containing h, a, l, f
- hill farm — a farm in a high area, usually concentrating on sheep, because of the lack of winter fodder
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- hot flash — a sudden, temporary sensation of heat experienced by some women during menopause.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- laugh off — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- left half — a defensive player who plays midfield, on the left side of the pitch
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loanshift — 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.
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- newsflash — flash (def 6).
- nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
- parfleche — a rawhide that has been dried after having been soaked in a solution of lye and water to remove the hair.
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- scaldfish — a small European flatfish, Arnoglossus laterna, covered with large fragile scales: family Bothidae
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
- slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
- snailfish — any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- threatful — threatening, menacing or full of threats
- trafola-h — A specification language for program transformations. Functional, statically typed, polymorphic, with extended constructs for pattern-matching. "Trafola-H Reference Manual", R. Heckmann et al, U Saarlandes, Saarbrucken 1991.
- unbashful — uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
- unharmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.