10-letter words containing h, e, d, f
- french dip — a hot sandwich of roast beef, pork, or lamb, served on a crusty roll over which seasoned pan juices are poured.
- french kid — kidskin tanned by an alum or vegetable process and finished in a manner originally employed by the French.
- frenchweed — the penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- fresherdom — the state of being a fresher
- friendhood — The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.
- friendship — the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person's friendship.
- frightened — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- fringehead — any fish of the genus Neoclinus, characterized by a row of fleshy processes on the head, as N. blanchardi (sarcastic fringehead) of California coastal waters.
- fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
- furloughed — Simple past tense and past participle of furlough.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- 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-dazed — partly dazed or confused
- half-dozen — one half of a dozen; six.
- half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
- handfasted — Simple past tense and past participle of handfast.
- hands-free — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- hard-faced — cheeky
- harden off — to accustom (a cultivated plant) or (of such a plant) to become accustomed to outdoor conditions by repeated exposure
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- healthfood — Alternative spelling of health food.
- hedge fund — a mutual fund organized as a limited partnership and using high-risk, speculative methods to obtain large profits.
- henry ford — Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- home field — A sports team's home field is their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- humidified — to make humid.
- humidifier — a device for increasing the amount of water vapor in the air of a room or building, consisting of a container for water and a vaporizer.
- humidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humidify.
- kerchiefed — Wearing a kerchief.
- lefthanded — Alternative spelling of left-handed.
- lefthander — Alternative spelling of left-hander.
- lightfaced — Written, printed or drawn in lightface using a font that has a low ration of ink to white space. The opposite of boldfaced.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- needlefish — any fish of the family Belonidae, of warm seas and coastal fresh waters, having a sharp beak and needlelike teeth.
- northfield — a town in SE Minnesota.
- old french — the French language of the 9th through the 13th centuries. Abbreviation: OF.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.