10-letter words containing c, a, l, f, s
- 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.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.
- infraclass — A taxonomic category that ranks below a subclass.
- la flesche — Susette (Inshta Theumba"Bright Eyes") 1854–1903, U.S. author, Native American activist, and lecturer.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- leaf scald — a bacterial disease of sugarcane, characterized by irregular, bleached streaks on the leaves and defoliation and caused especially by Bacterium albilineans.
- life class — nude drawing lesson
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- 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.
- myofascial — Of or relating to the layer of loose tissue (fascia) surrounding the muscle tissues.
- non-fiscal — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- salvifical — saving
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- scaffolded — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scale leaf — a scalelike leaf, as a bud scale or certain bracts.
- scapa flow — an area of water off the N coast of Scotland, in the Orkney Islands: British naval base; German warships scuttled 1919.
- 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
- self-paced — (of an educational system, course, etc.) done or designed to be accomplished at the student's own speed: self-paced instruction.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- subfascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.