10-letter words containing f, i, s, h
- pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- polish off — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- priestfish — blue rockfish.
- queer fish — strange person
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- redshifted — (of radiation) having undergone a redshift.
- refinisher — a person who professionally refinishes or restores buildings or antique furniture
- refreshing — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- ribbonfish — any of several marine fishes of the families Trachipteridae, Regalicidae, and Lophotidae, having a long, compressed, ribbonlike body.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- river fish — a freshwater fish
- rodfishing — angling or fishing using a fishing rod
- rosy finch — any of several finches of the genus Leucosticte, of Asia and western North America, having dark brown plumage with a pinkish wash on the wings and rump.
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- rudderfish — any of various fishes having the habit of following behind ships, as a pilot fish.
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- saccharify — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- safari hat — brimmed hat worn on wildlife tours
- schlieffen — Alfred (ˈalfreːt), Count von Schlieffen. 1833–1913, German field marshal, who devised the Schlieffen Plan (1905): it was intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries. In a modified form, it was unsuccessfully employed in World War I (1914)
- 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.