9-letter words containing i, f, t, h
- half tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-pint — half of a pint, equal to 8 fluid ounces (1 cup) or 16 tablespoons (0.2 liter).
- half-tide — the state or time of the tide when halfway between high water and low water.
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- heftiness — The property of being hefty.
- hen fruit — a hen's egg or eggs.
- hifalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hissy fit — Slang. a fit of anger; temper tantrum.
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- hoofprint — the impression made by an animal's hoof.
- in-flight — done, served, or shown during an air voyage: an in-flight movie.
- infighter — A person who indulges in infighting.
- intefadeh — Alternative spelling of intifada.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- kitschify — to make something kitsch
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lightfoot — (poetic) Light-footed.
- lithified — Simple past tense and past participle of lithify.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- match-fit — in good physical condition for competing in a match
- midflight — Occurring in the middle portion of a flight.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- mirthfull — Archaic form of mirthful.
- nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
- nightfire — a fire burned at night e.g. a campfire
- nightlife — the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion, as at a nightclub, theater, or the like.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- off-white — white mixed with a small amount of gray, yellow, or other light color.
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pinchfist — a miser
- pitch for — If someone is pitching for something, they are trying to persuade other people to give it to them.
- pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- plightful — filled with distress
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- right off — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shift bid — a bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
- shift key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
- shift out — (character) (SO, Control-N, ASCII 14) The character which was used to "shift out" of an alternate character set on some ancient teletypes, reversing the effect of the Shift In (SI, ASCII 15) character.