10-letter words containing f, a, l, i, s
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- life class — nude drawing lesson
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- life-saver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- lifesavers — Plural form of lifesaver.
- lifesaving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- 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.
- lizardfish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- 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.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- mala fides — bad faith; intent to cheat or deceive. Compare bona fides (def 1).
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- 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
- myofascial — Of or relating to the layer of loose tissue (fascia) surrounding the muscle tissues.
- nanofossil — A nanosized fossil.
- non-fiscal — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- off-island — located or tending away from the shore of an island: an off-island current.
- oriflammes — Plural form of oriflamme.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- saliferous — containing or producing salt: saliferous strata.
- salifiable — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salvifical — saving
- san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- self-image — the idea, conception, or mental image one has of oneself.
- sellafield — the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria
- semi-final — competition round that decides finalists
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- solifidian — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- split flap — a flap that is located on the under surface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing and that splits away from the wing structure when rotated downward, producing an increase in lift or drag or both. Compare landing flap.
- start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- subfascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- sufflation — to inflate.
- sulfanilyl — containing the sulfanilyl group.