10-letter words containing f, i, s, h
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- hoverflies — Plural form of hoverfly.
- humidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humidify.
- hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
- 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.
- infighters — Plural form of infighter.
- infosphere — electronic communication and networking as a whole
- inshore of — nearer than (something else) to the shore
- insightful — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- jump-shift — a jump bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
- kingfisher — any of numerous fish- or insect-eating birds of the family Alcedinidae that have a large head and a long, stout bill and are usually crested and brilliantly colored.
- kingfishes — Plural form of kingfish.
- 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
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- 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.
- lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
- lungfishes — Plural form of lungfish.
- 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.
- milkfishes — Plural form of milkfish.
- mineshafts — Plural form of mineshaft.
- misfashion — To form or fashion wrongly.
- monkfishes — Plural form of monkfish.
- 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
- muttonfish — ocean pout.
- needlefish — any fish of the family Belonidae, of warm seas and coastal fresh waters, having a sharp beak and needlelike teeth.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.
- 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
- nightshift — Alternative spelling of night shift.
- nonfashion — Not directly related to fashion, or the fashion industry.
- numbfishes — Plural form of numbfish.
- oafishness — The state of being oafish.
- of fashion — of high social standing
- offishness — Quality of being offish.
- offshoring — the practice of moving employees or certain business activities to foreign countries as a way to lower costs, avoid taxes, etc.: the offshoring of software jobs to China.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- 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.