Handful #17 answer

The seven tiles

H₃E₁F₄A₁U₂L₂T₁

The best three words: 55 points

1. HATEFUL 29 points
2. FAULT 13 points
3. FLUTE 13 points

The seven-letter word using every tile was HATEFUL, which earns the 15-point length bonus on top of its tile values.

Other high scorers

FETAL 12HALF 11LATHE 11FLUE 10FUEL 10

There were 54 valid words of three letters or more in these tiles. A word scores the sum of its tile values plus a length bonus (4 letters +1, 5 letters +3, 6 letters +6, 7 letters +15), so one long word usually beats several short ones.