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10-letter words containing f, h

  • fish balls — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
  • fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
  • fish flour — powdered fish, high in protein, used as an ingredient in other foods.
  • fish joint — a connection formed by fishplates at the meeting point of two rails, beams, etc, as on a railway
  • fish knife — a small knife with a spatulalike blade, used with a fork in cutting fish at table.
  • fish louse — any of numerous small crustaceans, especially certain copepods, parasitic on the skin and gills of fish.
  • fish paste — something you can spread on bread, made from fish which has been ground
  • fish queue — (humour)   (By analogy with FIFO - first-in, first-out) first in, still here. A joking way of pointing out that processing of a particular sequence of events or requests has stopped dead. Also "FISH mode" and "FISHnet"; the latter may be applied to any network that is running really slowly or exhibiting extreme flakiness.
  • fish sauce — a spicy sauce made from the fermented liquid of salt-cured fish, especially anchovies, popular as a flavoring or condiment in Southeast Asian cookery.
  • fish slice — a broad-bladed kitchen implement with a long handle, for turning fish in frying.
  • fish stick — an oblong piece of fried fish, usually breaded.
  • fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
  • fish wheel — a trap for catching salmon, consisting of a revolving wheel with attached nets set in a river so that it is turned by the current to capture the passing fish.
  • fishburger — A burger made with fish instead of beef.
  • fisherfolk — People who catch fish for a living.
  • fishfinger — an oblong piece of filleted or minced fish coated in breadcrumbs
  • fishmonger — a dealer in fish, especially for eating.
  • fishplates — Plural form of fishplate.
  • fishtailed — Simple past tense and past participle of fishtail.
  • fistfights — Plural form of fistfight.
  • fixed head — a recording head in a tape recorder or disk drive that cannot be moved relative to the center of the disk, offering reduced access time.
  • flapperish — in the style of a flapper
  • flare path — an airstrip illuminated for use at night or in bad weather
  • flash back — If your mind flashes back to something in the past, you remember it or think of it briefly or suddenly.
  • flash burn — a burn produced by brief exposure to intense, radiant heat, as from an explosion.
  • flash card — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
  • flash lamp — a lamp for providing momentary illumination of the subject of a photograph.
  • flash sale — A flash sale is a sale, held for a very limited time, offering very large discounts on surplus stock.
  • flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
  • flash unit — an electronic flash and its power supply in a compact unit.
  • flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
  • flashbacks — Plural form of flashback.
  • flashboard — a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.
  • flashbulbs — Plural form of flashbulb.
  • flashcards — Plural form of flashcard.
  • flashflood — Alternative spelling of flash flood.
  • flashiness — The quality of being flashy.
  • flashlight — Also called, especially British, torch. a small, portable electric lamp powered by dry batteries, LEDs, or a tiny generator.
  • flashovers — Plural form of flashover.
  • flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
  • flat light — even front lighting of a subject, producing little contrast, no shadows, and no modeling.
  • flat thunk — (programming)   A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
  • flat white — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and nonfrothy steamed milk.
  • flat-share — the state of living in a flat where each occupant shares the facilities and expenses
  • flaunching — The sloped mortar fillet around the base of a chimney pot, which serves to hold the pot in position and allow rainwater to run off.
  • fleahopper — either of two varieties of small, jumping insects which feed on crops and garden plants. The two main varieties are the garden fleahopper Halticus bractatus and the cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus
  • fleechment — flattery; cajolery; coaxing
  • flesh meat — the meat of birds or of animals other than fish, clams, etc., used as food
  • fleshiness — The state or characteristic of being fleshy.
  • fleshlight — A vagina-shaped sex toy which is designed to stimulate and fit around the penis to aid masturbation.
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