10-letter words containing s, h, e, f
- half-share — a share, as in profits, equal to one half.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hammerfest — a seaport in N Norway: the northernmost town in Europe.
- handfasted — Simple past tense and past participle of handfast.
- hands-free — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hasslefree — (informal) troublefree.
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hausfrauen — a housewife.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- holofernes — (in the Book of Judith) a general, serving Nebuchadnezzar, who was killed by Judith.
- home fries — pan-fried potatoes
- horseflesh — the flesh of a horse.
- horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
- horsethief — Alternative spelling of horse thief.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- humidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humidify.
- infighters — Plural form of infighter.
- infosphere — electronic communication and networking as a whole
- inshore of — nearer than (something else) to the shore
- kingfisher — any of numerous fish- or insect-eating birds of the family Alcedinidae that have a large head and a long, stout bill and are usually crested and brilliantly colored.
- kingfishes — Plural form of kingfish.
- la flesche — Susette (Inshta Theumba"Bright Eyes") 1854–1903, U.S. author, Native American activist, and lecturer.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- luftmensch — a person unconcerned with the practicalities of earning a living
- lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
- lungfishes — Plural form of lungfish.
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- marsh fern — a fern, Thelypteris palustris, having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- milkfishes — Plural form of milkfish.
- mineshafts — Plural form of mineshaft.
- monkfishes — Plural form of monkfish.
- needlefish — any fish of the family Belonidae, of warm seas and coastal fresh waters, having a sharp beak and needlelike teeth.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.