12-letter words containing h, f
- bushfighting — fighting in the bush
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
- cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
- chaetiferous — having bristles
- chaff-cutter — a machine used to chop up hay and straw to make it into chaff for feeding to cattle
- chafing dish — a vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- channel surf — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel-surf — to switch TV channels repeatedly using a remote-control device, usually so as to sample brief segments of programs
- characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
- chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
- cheerfulness — full of cheer; in good spirits: a cheerful person.
- chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chew the fat — If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
- chicago fire — a three-day fire in Chicago, Ill., in 1871 that largely destroyed the city and took several hundred lives.
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- chief priest — the highest ranking among a number of priests
- chieftainess — a female chieftain
- chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
- childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
- chill factor — windchill factor
- chinese leaf — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
- chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
- chloroformer — someone who administers chloroform
- chlorpyrifos — a broad-spectrum insecticide, C 9 H 11 Cl 3 NO 3 PS, used on lawns and ornamental plants.
- chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
- chromiferous — Containing, or yielding chromium.
- chuck off at — to abuse or make fun of
- city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
- clap hold of — to grasp suddenly or forcibly
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- cliffhanging — Present participle of cliffhang.
- climbingfish — climbing perch.
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- cock feather — the odd-coloured feather set on the shaft of an arrow at right angles to the nock
- cockfighting — The sport (illegal in certain countries) of setting two cocks to fight each other. Fighting cocks often have had their legs fitted with metal spurs.
- coffee house — A coffee house is a kind of bar where people sit to drink coffee and talk. Coffee houses were especially popular in Britain in the 18th century.
- coffeehouses — Plural form of coffeehouse.
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- conchiferous — (esp of molluscs) having or producing a shell
- cop off with — If you cop off with someone, you meet them and start a sexual or romantic relationship with them.
- couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train