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11-letter words containing h, f

  • on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
  • on the hoof — (of livestock) alive
  • out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • outfighting — a battle or combat.
  • overfishing — 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.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • overfreight — to load too heavily
  • oxford shoe — oxford (def 1).
  • oxfordshire — a county in S England. 1008 sq. mi. (2610 sq. km).
  • panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
  • parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
  • pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
  • pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
  • pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
  • phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
  • photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
  • 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.
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
  • prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
  • prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
  • proof sheet — a printer's proof.
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
  • pushfulness — the quality of being offensively assertive or forceful
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • refreshment — something that refreshes, especially food or drink.
  • refurbisher — a person who refurbishes
  • 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
  • rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
  • riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
  • right field — the area of the outfield to the right of center field, as viewed from home plate.
  • right stuff — the necessary or ideal qualities or capabilities, as courage, confidence, dependability, toughness, or daring (usually preceded by the).
  • 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.
  • roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
  • rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
  • royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
  • rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
  • rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
  • 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.
  • sam hold of — to collect; gather up
  • scene shift — the changing of scenes during a play
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