9-letter words containing o, f, h, a
- half note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- half tone — semitone.
- half-boot — a boot reaching about halfway to the knee.
- half-cock — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half-done — past participle of do1 .
- half-hose — socks
- half-hour — a period of 30 minutes.
- half-long — (of a speech sound) of intermediate length; neither short nor fully long.
- half-moon — the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609.
- half-note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
- half-oval — having the general form, shape, or outline of an egg; egg-shaped.
- half-sole — to repair or renew (a shoe) by putting on a new half sole.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- haloforms — Plural form of haloform.
- hands off — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-off — characterized by nonintervention or noninterference: the new hands-off foreign policy.
- haushofer — Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- hear from — receive news, correspondence from sb
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- hell of a — (intensifier)
- hoarfrost — frost (def 2).
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- home farm — (esp formerly) a farm belonging to and providing food for a large country house
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- homograft — allograft.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- hot flash — a sudden, temporary sensation of heat experienced by some women during menopause.
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.
- laugh off — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- 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.
- offenbach — Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1819–80, French composer.
- offhanded — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- razorfish — any of several wrasses of the genus Hemipteronatus having a compressed, sharp-edged head, as H. novacula (pearly razorfish) of the West Indies and the Mediterranean Sea.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- rh factor — any of a type of specific antigen present on the surface of red blood cells, persons having inherited such antigens being designated Rh+ (Rh positive) and persons lacking them, a much smaller group, being designated Rh− (Rh negative) blood of Rh− persons is incompatible with Rh+ blood because of antibody reaction, and an Rh− woman who bears an Rh+ baby will have formed antibodies to the fetal blood that, unless removed from her bloodstream by apheresis in a subsequent pregnancy, will be carried across the placenta and destroy red blood cells of the next Rh+ fetus, resulting in erythroblastosis in the newborn.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- shades of — something reminding one of something (or someone) past
- shake off — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shear off — remove by cutting, slice away
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
- shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- soothfast — based on the truth; true.
- trafola-h — A specification language for program transformations. Functional, statically typed, polymorphic, with extended constructs for pattern-matching. "Trafola-H Reference Manual", R. Heckmann et al, U Saarlandes, Saarbrucken 1991.
- vouchsafe — to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: to vouchsafe a reply to a question.