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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
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