10-letter words containing f, a, s, h, i
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- goatfishes — Plural form of goatfish.
- grassfinch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- 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.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- 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.
- in a flash — very quickly, in an instant
- in fashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- 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.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- misfashion — To form or fashion wrongly.
- 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
- 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
- nonfashion — Not directly related to fashion, or the fashion industry.
- oafishness — The state of being oafish.
- of fashion — of high social standing
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- 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.
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- 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
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- saccharify — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- safari hat — brimmed hat worn on wildlife tours
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- smithcraft — the work or craft of a smith
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- trash fish — a fish traditionally sold only for animal feed or manufactured products.
- upflashing — flashing or flaring up
- wind shaft — the shaft driven by the sails of a windmill.
- zebra fish — any of various fishes with barred, zebralike markings; often, specif., a danio (Danio rerio) that is kept in aquariums and used in genetic research