9-letter words containing h, e, d, f
- 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
- half-done — past participle of do1 .
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hand-feed — Agriculture. to feed (animals) with apportioned amounts at regular intervals. Compare self-feed.
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- hard fern — a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- hayfields — Plural form of hayfield.
- head chef — professional cook who runs a kitchen
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headframe — a structure supporting the hoisting sheaves at the top of a mine shaft.
- headscarf — A square of fabric worn as a covering for the head, often folded into a triangle and knotted under the chin.
- heedfully — In a heedful manner.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- hold fire — If you hold fire in a situation, you delay before taking action.
- hoped-for — Hoped-for is used to describe something that people would like to happen, and which they usually think is likely or possible.
- horrified — showing or indicating great shock or horror: a horrified gasp; a horrified expression.
- intefadeh — Alternative spelling of intifada.
- left-hand — on or to the left: a left-hand turn at the intersection.
- lichfield — a town in SE Staffordshire, in central England, N of Birmingham: birthplace of Samuel Johnson.
- lithified — Simple past tense and past participle of lithify.
- offhanded — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- offshored — Simple past tense and past participle of offshore.
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- refreshed — to provide new vigor and energy by rest, food, etc. (often used reflexively).
- richfield — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rodfisher — an angler or a person who fishes with a fishing rod
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- shades of — something reminding one of something (or someone) past
- shed roof — a roof having a single slope.
- sheepfold — an enclosure for sheep.
- sheet-fed — (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.
- sheffield — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- the fiend — the devil; Satan
- the flood — the flood extending over all the earth from which Noah and his family and livestock were saved in the ark. (Genesis 7–8); the Deluge
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- threefold — comprising three parts, members, or aspects; triple: a threefold program.
- underfish — to catch fewer fish than the maximum amount permitted
- unfetched — damned: Jim beat up every fetched one of them.
- unheedful — without heed
- unshifted — (of a keyboard shift key) not pressed or activated.
- wholefood — food with little or no refining or processing and containing no artificial additives or preservatives; natural or organic food.