11-letter words containing h, f, e, a
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- hang a left — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- harvest fly — cicada
- harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
- hassle-free — without problems or bother
- hatchetfish — any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx, and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters, having a silvery, hatchet-shaped body.
- hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- have a life — If you say that you have a life, you mean that you have interests and activities, particularly outside your work, which make your life enjoyable and worthwhile.
- have it off — to have sexual intercourse
- head office — headquarters
- health farm — A health farm is a hotel where people go to get fitter or lose weight by exercising and eating special food.
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfeltly — In a heartfelt manner.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- heterograft — xenograft.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- hit the fan — any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- hua guofeng — 1920?–2008, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1976–80.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- in the face — head on, directly
- infangthief — (in Old English law) the right of a lord of the manor to have jurisdiction over a thief caught within the bounds of his property
- joseph raff — Joseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- lanternfish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
- leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.
- leaf sheath — the basal part of a grass leaf that encircles the stem
- leaf-hopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
- leatherfish — a filefish.
- leatherleaf — an evergreen shrub, Chamaedaphne calyculata, of the heath family, having leathery leaves and one-sided clusters of white, bell-shaped flowers, occurring in bogs in North America.
- left-handed — having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
- left-hander — a person who is left-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the left hand.
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lone father — a father with no wife or partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)