8-letter words containing h, e, i, f
- helilift — to transport by helicopter
- hellfire — the fire of hell.
- hexafoil — a pattern with six lobes around a regular hexagon
- highlife — an expensive, glamorous, or elegant style of living.
- himselfe — Obsolete spelling of himself.
- hindfell — the mountain on whose fiery top Brynhild slept until awakened by Sigurd.
- hive off — a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- hopfield — a field in which hops are grown
- humified — transformed into humus.
- ice fish — any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body
- in chief — in charge
- infotech — Information technology.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- keffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
- kerchief — a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
- 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.
- lifehold — Land held by a life estate.
- mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- niflheim — a place of eternal cold, darkness, and fog, ruled over by Hel: abode of those who die of illness or old age.
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- redshift — 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.
- reeffish — any of several damselfishes, as Chromis insolatus, that live among reefs.
- refinish — to give a new surface to (wood, furniture, etc.).
- rosefish — redfish (def 1).
- sea fish — a fish that lives in salt water
- sheefish — inconnu (def 2).
- sherriff — Robert Cedric, 1896–1975, English playwright and novelist.
- shinleaf — a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- the life — prostitution as a trade
- thurifer — a person who carries the thurible in religious ceremonies.
- tilefish — a large, brilliantly colored food fish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, of deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- treefish — a rockfish, Sebastes serriceps, of waters off southern California, marked with black bands.
- unfished — not used for fishing
- weakfish — any food fish of the genus Cynoscion, as C. regalis, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
- wet fish — fresh fish as opposed to frozen or cooked fish
- whiffled — Simple past tense and past participle of whiffle.
- whiffler — an attendant who clears the way for a procession.
- whitefly — any of several plant-sucking, homopterous insects of the family Aleyrodidae, having the body and wings dusted with a white, powdery wax, and being widely distributed chiefly in tropical regions where they are often serious crop pests, as Dialeurodes citri (citrus whitefly) commonly occurring on citrus trees, and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (greenhouse whitefly) inhabiting greenhouses.
- wifehood — the state of being a wife.
- wilf hey — (person) The person who originally developed Report Program Generator and coined the phrase GIGO (garbage in: garbage out). In 2004, after more than forty years in computing, he was writing for PC Plus magazine in the UK and doing Wilf's programmers workshop amongst other things. He died on 2007-01-01 after a long illness.