10-letter words containing f, a, s, h, e
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- 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.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franchises — Plural form of franchise.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- fresh gale — a wind of 39–46 miles per hour (17–33 m/sec). Compare gale1 (def 2).
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- goatfishes — Plural form of goatfish.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- half shell — either of the halves of a double-shelled creature, as of an oyster, clam, or other bivalve mollusk.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.
- half-share — a share, as in profits, equal to one half.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hammerfest — a seaport in N Norway: the northernmost town in Europe.
- handfasted — Simple past tense and past participle of handfast.
- hands-free — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- hasslefree — (informal) troublefree.
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hausfrauen — a housewife.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- 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.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- 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.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- marsh fern — a fern, Thelypteris palustris, having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- mineshafts — Plural form of mineshaft.
- news flash — flash (def 6).
- 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
- oafishness — The state of being oafish.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.