10-letter words containing a, f, l, s, h
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.
- half-shaft — The half-shaft or half axle is the shaft in a vehicle along which power is sent from the final drive to one driven wheel or a pair of wheels.
- half-share — a share, as in profits, equal to one half.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- half-staff — half-mast.
- half-stuff — (in a manufacturing process) any material half formed, especially partly prepared pulp for making paper.
- hasslefree — (informal) troublefree.
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- in a flash — very quickly, in an instant
- la flesche — Susette (Inshta Theumba"Bright Eyes") 1854–1903, U.S. author, Native American activist, and lecturer.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- lift shaft — the long vertical space through which a lift travels
- light-fast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- lizardfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- loan-shift — 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.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- multiflash — (of a photographic image) created using several flashes in quick succession in order to depict the successive stages of a movement or action sequence
- news flash — flash (def 6).
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- shamefully — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- shelf mark — a symbol indicating the location of a work on a shelf.
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- upflashing — flashing or flaring up