8-letter words containing h, f
- horrific — causing horror.
- horsefly — any bloodsucking, usually large fly of the family Tabanidae, especially of the genus Tabanus, a serious pest of horses, cattle, etc.
- hot-foot — 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.
- hotfoots — Plural form of hotfoot.
- housefly — a medium-sized, gray-striped fly, Musca domestica, common around human habitations in nearly all parts of the world.
- houseful — as many as a house will accommodate: a houseful of weekend guests.
- hoverfly — Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
- how far? — to what extent, distance, or degree?
- humidify — to make humid.
- humified — transformed into humus.
- humorful — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hurtfull — Archaic form of hurtful.
- ice fish — any percoid fish of the family Chaenichthyidae, of Antarctic seas, having a semitransparent scaleless body
- in chief — in charge
- in faith — indeed; really
- inflight — done, served, or shown during an air voyage: an in-flight movie.
- infobahn — information superhighway.
- infotech — Information technology.
- jackfish — any of several pikes, especially the northern pike.
- kaffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- keffiyeh — an Arab headdress for men; made from a diagonally folded square of cloth held in place by an agal wound around the head.
- kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
- kerchief — a woman's square scarf worn as a covering for the head or sometimes the shoulders.
- khalifah — Dated form of caliph.
- kingfish — any of several marine food fishes of the drum family, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, found off the E coast of the U.S.
- ladyfish — a game fish, Elops saurus, of warm seas, closely related to but smaller than the tarpon.
- laughful — full of laughter
- layshaft — an auxiliary shaft in a gearbox, running parallel to the main shaft, to and from which drive is transferred to enable varying ratios to be obtained
- lefthand — Alternative form of left-hand.
- lifehack — Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing a day-to-day task or activity; a hack: a lifehack for overcoming social anxiety; a computer programmer's best lifehacks.
- lifehold — Land held by a life estate.
- lightful — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lionfish — a brightly striped scorpionfish of the genus Pterois, especially P. volitans, of the Indo-Pacific region, having long, flamboyant, venomous spiny fins.
- loathful — Scot. bashful; reluctant.
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
- makhlouf — Saint Sharbel [shahr-buh l] /ˈʃɑr bəl/ (Show IPA), 1828–98, Lebanese monk: canonized 1977.
- manshift — the work accomplished by one person in one shift
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.
- milkfish — a herringlike fish, Chanos chanos, of warm ocean waters in southeastern Asia.
- mirthful — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- misfaith — Lack of faith; distrust.
- monkfish — angler (def 3).
- moonfish — Also called horsefish, horsehead. any of several silvery marine fishes of the genus Selene, having a very compressed body and inhabiting shallow coastal waters.
- mouthful — the amount a mouth can hold.
- niflheim — a place of eternal cold, darkness, and fog, ruled over by Hel: abode of those who die of illness or old age.
- not half — Half is sometimes used in negative statements, with a positive meaning, to emphasize a particular fact or quality. For example, if you say 'he isn't half lucky', you mean that he is very lucky.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.