10-letter words containing a, f, s, l
- frugalness — The property of being frugal.
- full blast — a sudden and violent gust of wind: Wintry blasts chilled us to the marrow.
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- full-scale — having the exact size or proportions of the original: a full-scale replica.
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- funiculars — Plural form of funicular.
- fusilladed — Simple past tense and past participle of fusillade.
- fusillades — Plural form of fusillade.
- fustanella — a short stiff skirt, usually pleated, made of white cotton or linen, worn by men in some parts of the Balkans.
- fustinella — a short stiff skirt, usually pleated, made of white cotton or linen, worn by men in some parts of the Balkans.
- ghastfully — in a ghastful manner
- guest flag — a rectangular white flag flown at the starboard main spreader or main yardarm of a yacht when the owner is away but guests are on board.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- half shell — either of the halves of a double-shelled creature, as of an oyster, clam, or other bivalve mollusk.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- half twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- 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
- infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- infeasible — not feasible; impracticable.
- infeasibly — In a manner that\u2019s not feasible.
- inflations — Plural form of inflation.
- influenzas — Plural form of influenza.
- infraclass — A taxonomic category that ranks below a subclass.
- infusorial — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of infusorians: infusorial earth.
- insufflate — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- isoflavone — a phytoestrogen produced chiefly by plants of the legume family, especially soybeans, potentially useful in lowering cholesterol and in treating some cancers and menopausal symptoms.
- isoflurane — a volatile, halogenated ether, C 3 H 2 ClF 5 O, used as a general anesthetic in surgery.
- la flesche — Susette (Inshta Theumba"Bright Eyes") 1854–1903, U.S. author, Native American activist, and lecturer.
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- lawfulness — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- leaf scald — a bacterial disease of sugarcane, characterized by irregular, bleached streaks on the leaves and defoliation and caused especially by Bacterium albilineans.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles