10-letter words containing f, l, i, t, s
- fort lewis — a military reservation in W central Washington State, SW of Tacoma.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fosterling — foster child.
- freckliest — Superlative form of freckly.
- 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.
- 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.
- full twist — a front or back dive made by a complete rotation of the body on its vertical axis. Compare half twist (def 1).
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- fusibility — the quality of being fusible or convertible from a solid to a liquid state by heat.
- 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.
- half twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- 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.
- inflations — Plural form of inflation.
- insightful — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- insufflate — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- 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.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
- life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
- lifestream — a record of all of one's online content and social interactions, presented chronologically on a single website: I just added Twitter to my lifestream.
- lifestyler — One who lives an alternative lifestyle all the time, not just occasionally.
- lifestyles — Plural form of lifestyle.
- 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.
- 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.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- 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
- multifoils — Plural form of multifoil.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.
- off limits — forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons: The tavern is off-limits to soldiers.
- off-limits — forbidden to be patronized, frequented, used, etc., by certain persons: The tavern is off-limits to soldiers.
- old fustic — a large tropical American moraceous tree, Chlorophora tinctoria
- pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.