10-letter words containing a, i, r, s, t
- first base — Baseball. the first in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate. the position of the player covering the area of the infield near first base.
- first dark — twilight.
- first hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- first mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- first name — given or Christian name
- first year — the first year when someone is at university or college
- first-hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- first-name — of or relating to one's first, or given, name; familiar; intimate: They were on a first-name basis soon after meeting.
- first-rate — excellent; superb.
- fixed star — any of the stars which apparently always retain the same position in respect to one another.
- flatteries — Plural form of flattery.
- flavourist — a chemist who blends ingredients to create artificial flavours or scents, for food or perfume
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- fraternise — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- frugalista — (informal) A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
- gainstrive — to resist; to oppose
- garnitures — Plural form of garniture.
- gas fitter — a person who installs gas pipes and apparatus in buildings.
- gastralgia — neuralgia of the stomach.
- gastrolith — a calculous concretion in the stomach.
- gatherings — Plural form of gathering.
- gauleiters — Plural form of gauleiter.
- gaza strip — a coastal area on the E Mediterranean: formerly in the Palestine mandate, occupied by Israel 1967–94; since 1994 under Palestinian self-rule.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- generalist — a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).
- geriatrics — Slang. an old person.
- germinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of germinate.
- gesticular — pertaining to or characterized by gesticulation.
- giant star — a star having a diameter of from 10 to 100 times that of the sun, as Arcturus or Aldebaran.
- gigalitres — Plural form of gigalitre.
- gladiators — Plural form of gladiator.
- glossarist — Someone who writes a glossary.
- graciosity — graciousness
- gradations — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- gradualist — (biology, politics) One who believes in gradualism.
- graffitist — plural of graffito.
- grammatist — (historical) A teacher of prose literature and letters in Ancient Greece.