7-letter words containing h, f
- hear of — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- heedful — taking heed; attentive; mindful; thoughtful; careful: She was always heedful of others' needs.
- heftier — Comparative form of hefty.
- heftily — heavy; weighty: a hefty book.
- hefting — weight; heaviness: It was a rather flimsy chair, without much heft to it.
- heifers — Plural form of heifer.
- heifetz — Jascha [yah-shuh] /ˈyɑ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1901–1987, U.S. violinist, born in Russia.
- helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hentoff — Nat(han Irving) born 1925, U.S. writer and critic.
- herefor — (obsolete except in Scotland) For this: instead or in consideration of this, with a view to this.
- herself — See myself.
- himself — See myself.
- hisself — (nonstandard, now chiefly, dialect) Variant form of himself.
- hit off — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hofbrau — an informal, German-style restaurant or tavern.
- hoffman — Malvina [mal-vee-nuh] /mælˈvi nə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1966, U.S. sculptor.
- hofmann — August Wilhelm von [ou-goo st vil-helm fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1818–92, German chemist.
- hogfish — a large wrasse, Lachnolaimus maximus, of the western Atlantic Ocean, used for food.
- holdoff — A fixture or attachment intended to prevent direct contact between two objects.
- homefry — Alt form home fry.
- hoof it — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- hoofers — Plural form of hoofer.
- hoofing — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- hornful — the amount a horn will hold
- horrify — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
- hot fix — (storage) Novell, Inc.'s term for the feature of their network file server operating system, Novell NetWare, which handles errors in disk write operations. The OS re-reads every block it writes to disk while it holds the data to be written in memory. In the case of an error, the data block is written to a spare area on the disk. The feature lost much of its importance with the widespread use of hard disk drives with built-in error correction and bad block re-mapping.
- hot for — sexually attracted to
- hotfoot — a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
- hotwife — (slang) A married female swinger; a wife who has sex with men other than her husband, with the husband's approval.
- huffily — easily offended; touchy.
- huffing — a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment: Just because you disagree, don't walk off in a huff.
- huffish — peevish; irritable.
- huffkin — a kind of muffin or tea-cake made mainly in Kent
- huffman — Huffman coding
- hurtful — causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.
- hushful — Full of, pervaded by, or characteristic of stillness or silence; tending to hush to rest.
- huswife — (obsolete) A housewife.
- icefish — A scaleless Antarctic fish of pallid appearance with spiny gill covers and a snout shaped like a duck’s bill.
- in half — one of two equal or approximately equal parts of a divisible whole, as an object, or unit of measure or time; a part of a whole equal or almost equal to the remainder.
- infight — to box, or otherwise fight, at close quarters; to engage in infighting
- inkfish — (colloquial) cuttlefish.
- isfahan — a city in central Iran: the capital of Persia from the 16th into the 18th century.
- jawfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Opisthognathidae, common along sandy bottoms of warm seas.
- jewfish — any of several very large fishes, especially of the family Serranidae, as the giant sea bass and the groupers Epinephelus itajara and E. nigritus, found in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
- khadafy — Muammar (Muhammad) al- or el- [moo-ah-mahr,, al,, el] /muˈɑ mɑr,, æl,, ɛl/ (Show IPA), Qadhafi.
- khafaje — the site of an ancient city in E Iraq: occupied at different times by the Akkadians and the Sumerians.
- khalifa — caliph.
- kuffieh — kaffiyeh.
- kufiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.