10-letter words containing f, i, h
- schrieffer — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- sheet film — a flat piece of film cut to a required size before being loaded into a camera.
- shelf life — the term or period during which a stored commodity remains effective, useful, or suitable for consumption: Many medicines have a very short shelf life.
- shift down — When you shift down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- shift lock — a typewriter or computer key that locks the shift key in depressed position.
- shipfitter — a person who forms plates, shapes, etc., of ship according to plans, patterns, or molds.
- shirtfront — front of a shirt
- shit-faced — very drunk.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- short-life — not designed to last
- shrimpfish — any of several fishes of the family Centriscidae, inhabiting shallow waters from eastern Africa to Hawaii, having a compressed body covered with transparent plates.
- shrink fit — a tight fit of a collar or wheel boss on a shaft obtained by expanding the collar or boss by heating to enable it to be threaded onto the shaft and then allowing it to cool, or by freezing the shaft to reduce its diameter to enable it to be threaded into the collar or boss and then allowing the shaft temperature to rise
- silverfish — a white or silvery goldfish, Carassius auratus.
- sixth form — secondary school: final 2 years
- smithcraft — the work or craft of a smith
- smithfield — a town in N Rhode Island.
- sniffishly — in a sniffy or disdainful manner
- southfield — a city in SE Michigan, W of Detroit.
- sport fish — a type of fish that is prized for the sport it gives the angler in its capture rather than for its value as food.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- stiff with — amply provided with
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- suckerfish — remora.
- swift moth — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- switch off — the act or process of switching off a power supply, light source, appliance, etc.
- switch-off — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- thalliform — resembling a thallus
- the fishes — the constellation Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac
- the flicks — the cinema
- the office — a hint or signal
- thimbleful — the amount that a thimble will hold.
- third form — the third year of education at school, esp in England
- thirtyfold — thirty times as many
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- thriftless — without thrift; improvident; wasteful.
- thriftshop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
- tight five — the combined front and second rows of a rugby union scrum
- tile forth — (language) A Forth interpreter in C for Unix by Mikael Patel <[email protected]>. TILE Forth comes with many Forth libraries. It conforms to the Forth83 standard and is distributed under GPL. Availalbe via FTP from a GNU archive site.
- tonguefish — any of several flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, having the tail tapered to a point.
- top flight — the highest or most outstanding level, as in achievement or development: students in the top flight of their class.
- top-flight — the highest or most outstanding level, as in achievement or development: students in the top flight of their class.
- trash fish — a fish traditionally sold only for animal feed or manufactured products.
- ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
- unfaithful — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
- unfinished — not finished; incomplete or unaccomplished.
- unrightful — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- unshifting — to move from one place, position, direction, etc., to another.