10-letter words containing f, a, t, s
- 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.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- homografts — Plural form of homograft.
- 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.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jack staff — a flagstaff at the bow of a vessel, on which a jack is flown.
- jackshafts — Plural form of jackshaft.
- kafiristan — former name of Nuristan.
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- 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
- leafstalks — Plural form of leafstalk.
- left stage — the part of the stage that is left of center as one faces the audience.
- 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.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- lust after — desire sexually
- 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.
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- man's fate — French La Condition Humaine. a novel (1933) by André Malraux.
- 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.
- marrowfats — Plural form of marrowfat.
- 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
- oak forest — a town in NE Illinois.
- obfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obfuscate.
- obfuscator — Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.