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11-letter words containing i, f

  • half sister — sister (def 2).
  • half-boiled — drunk.
  • half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
  • half-circle — one half of a circle
  • half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
  • half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
  • half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
  • half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
  • half-minute — 30 seconds
  • half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • half-sister — sister (def 2).
  • half-witted — feeble-minded.
  • halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • han fei-tzu — died 233 b.c, Chinese philosopher and legal theorist.
  • handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
  • handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
  • handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
  • hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
  • harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
  • hatchetfish — any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx, and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters, having a silvery, hatchet-shaped body.
  • have a life — If you say that you have a life, you mean that you have interests and activities, particularly outside your work, which make your life enjoyable and worthwhile.
  • have it off — to have sexual intercourse
  • head office — headquarters
  • hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
  • high relief — sculptured relief in which volumes are strongly projected from the background.
  • high-flying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
  • higher self — a person's spiritual self, as the focus of many meditation techniques, as opposed to the physical body
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
  • hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
  • hipped roof — a roof having sloping ends and sides
  • hippogriffs — Plural form of hippogriff.
  • hiring-fair — (formerly, in rural areas) a fair or market at which agricultural labourers were hired
  • hit the fan — any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
  • hold in fee — to own; possess
  • holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
  • holy office — a congregation founded in 1542 to succeed the suppressed Inquisition and entrusted with matters pertaining to faith and morals, as the judgment of heresy, the application of canonical punishment, and the examination of books and prohibition of those held dangerous to faith and morals.
  • home office — the main office of a company.
  • honorifical — honorific
  • hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
  • horror film — a film with a frightening storyline and atmosphere
  • host family — family one lodges with
  • house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
  • housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
  • housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
  • huffishness — The quality of being huffish.
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