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11-letter words containing h, f, e, a

  • make hay of — to throw into confusion
  • mantelshelf — mantel (def 2).
  • mothercraft — skill and knowledge in looking after children
  • not hear of — to forbid or refuse to consider
  • off the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • off the bat — straight away, from the very start
  • off the map — no longer important or in existence (esp in the phrase wipe off the map)
  • offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
  • offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
  • on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
  • pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
  • pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
  • pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research
  • return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
  • safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
  • safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
  • schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
  • schiff base — the product of the chemical association of an aldehyde with a primary amine
  • sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
  • self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
  • shaft alley — an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.
  • shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
  • shaft house — a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft.
  • shaftesburyAnthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
  • share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
  • sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
  • shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
  • shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
  • shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
  • shelf space — amount of room on shelves
  • shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
  • sheriffalty — shrievalty.
  • shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
  • sneak thief — a burglar who sneaks into houses through open doors, windows, etc.
  • soft-headed — foolish; stupid.
  • softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
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