10-letter words containing a, l, s, c
- flagsticks — Plural form of flagstick.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flash back — If your mind flashes back to something in the past, you remember it or think of it briefly or suddenly.
- flash card — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
- flashbacks — Plural form of flashback.
- flashcards — Plural form of flashcard.
- flat ascii — (text) (Or "plain ASCII") Said of a text file that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and uses only ASCII-standard control characters (that is, has no embedded codes specific to a particular text formatter markup language, or output device, and no meta-characters). Compare flat file.
- flatscreen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flavescent — turning yellow; yellowish.
- flick-pass — a movement in which the ball is passed quickly to another player by flicking it out of the hand; often performed with only one hand
- flowcharts — Plural form of flowchart.
- fluctuates — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- foliaceous — of, like, or of the nature of a plant leaf; leaflike.
- fool's cap — a traditional jester's cap or hood, often multicolored and usually having several drooping peaks from which bells are hung.
- forecastle — a superstructure at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel, used as a shelter for stores, machinery, etc., or as quarters for sailors.
- forinsecal — foreign
- form class — a class of words or forms in a given language that have one or more grammatical features in common, as, in Latin, all masculine nouns in the nominative singular, all masculine singular nouns, all masculine nouns, or all nouns.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- freelances — Plural form of freelance.
- full-scale — having the exact size or proportions of the original: a full-scale replica.
- funiculars — Plural form of funicular.
- galacticos — Plural form of galactico.
- galactosan — galactan.
- galactosyl — the glycosyl radical of galactose
- gastrocele — (anatomy) A cavity in the embryonic gastrula.
- gastrocoel — archenteron.
- gay-lussac — Joseph Louis [joh-zuh f loo-ee,, -suh f;; French zhaw-zef lwee] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf ˈlu i,, -səf;; French ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist.
- geodesical — Alternative form of geodesic.
- gesticular — pertaining to or characterized by gesticulation.
- glacialist — a person who studies geological phenomena involving the action of ice, especially of glaciers.
- glasnostic — relating to the policy of glasnost
- glass case — a case made of glass, usually in a wood or metal frame, used for displaying and protecting precious or important objects
- glasscloth — a cloth for cleaning glass, which does not leave fibres behind
- glucosuria — glycosuria.
- glumaceous — glumelike; chaffy.
- glycosuria — excretion of glucose in the urine, as in diabetes.
- goalscorer — (football) A person who scores a goal, or scores goals.
- gold coast — a former British territory in W Africa; now a part of Ghana.
- golschmann — Vladimir [vlad-uh-meer] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1893–1972, French orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
- graciously — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- graticules — Plural form of graticule.
- gray scale — a scale of achromatic colors having several, usually ten, equal gradations ranging from white to black, used in television and photography.
- gray-scale — (spelling) US spelling of "grey-scale".
- grey-scale — (graphics) (US "gray-scale") 1. Composed of (discrete) shades of grey. If the pixels of a grey-scale image have N bits, they may take values from zero, representing black up to 2^N-1, representing white with intermediate values representing increasingly light shades of grey. If N=1 the image is not called grey-scale but could be called monochrome. 2. A range of acurately known shades of grey printed out for use in calibrating those shades on a display or printer.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- haemocoels — Plural form of haemocoel.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.