10-letter words containing f, i, l, s
- fossilized — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- fosterling — foster child.
- foundlings — Plural form of foundling.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freckliest — Superlative form of freckly.
- friendless — a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
- friendlies — Plural form of friendly.
- frightless — (obsolete) Free from fright; fearless.
- frithstool — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a seat in a church, placed near the altar, for persons who claimed the right of sanctuary.
- frizzliest — Superlative form of frizzly.
- frolicsome — merrily playful; full of fun.
- front list — a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books, especially those of popular or ephemeral appeal.
- frontlines — Plural form of frontline.
- frost boil — frost heave.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frugalista — (informal) A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty.
- fulgurites — Plural form of fulgurite.
- fuliginous — sooty; smoky: the fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city.
- full swing — full operation; greatest activity: For the first time in years the factory was in full swing. The meeting was in full swing when we arrived.
- full twist — a front or back dive made by a complete rotation of the body on its vertical axis. Compare half twist (def 1).
- full-sized — of actual size; life-sized
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- funguslike — Resembling or characteristic of fungus.
- funiculars — Plural form of funicular.
- fusibility — the quality of being fusible or convertible from a solid to a liquid state by heat.
- fusilladed — Simple past tense and past participle of fusillade.
- fusillades — Plural form of fusillade.
- fusionless — without fusion
- fustinella — a short stiff skirt, usually pleated, made of white cotton or linen, worn by men in some parts of the Balkans.
- futileness — incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to force-feed the sick horse was futile.
- futilities — Plural form of futility.
- goldfields — any of several Californian, composite herbs of the genus Lasthenia, having yellow flowers.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- golf links — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- 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
- horseflies — Plural form of horsefly.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
- in a flash — very quickly, in an instant
- infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- infeasible — not feasible; impracticable.
- infeasibly — In a manner that\u2019s not feasible.
- infielders — Plural form of infielder.