10-letter words containing f, a, i, t, s
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- half twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- infantries — Plural form of infantry.
- infatuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infatuate.
- inflations — Plural form of inflation.
- informants — Plural form of informant.
- infuriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infuriate.
- instead of — as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something: We ordered tea but were served coffee instead.
- insufflate — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- interfaces — Plural form of interface.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- kafiristan — former name of Nuristan.
- 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.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- lifestream — a record of all of one's online content and social interactions, presented chronologically on a single website: I just added Twitter to my lifestream.
- 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.
- 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.
- main shaft — the principal shaft of a motor, transmission, etc. (distinguished from jackshaft).
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- manifested — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifester — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifestos — Plural form of manifesto.
- mineshafts — Plural form of mineshaft.
- misfeature — a distorted feature.
- 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
- mutessarif — an administrator or governor of a sanjak or province in the former Ottoman Empire
- neofascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- night safe — a safe built into the outside wall of a bank, in which customers can deposit money at times when the bank is closed
- officiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of officiate.
- pacificist — a person who is opposed to violence
- pacifistic — of or relating to pacifism or pacifists.
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- quantifies — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- ras tafari — (Ras Tafari) 1891–1975, emperor of Ethiopia 1930–74: in exile 1936–41.
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.