10-letter words containing f, l, s
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- holofernes — (in the Book of Judith) a general, serving Nebuchadnezzar, who was killed by Judith.
- horseflesh — the flesh of a horse.
- 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
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- 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.
- inflations — Plural form of inflation.
- influences — Plural form of influence.
- influenzas — Plural form of influenza.
- infoldings — Plural form of infolding.
- infraclass — A taxonomic category that ranks below a subclass.
- infusorial — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of infusorians: infusorial earth.
- inner self — a person's true or internal mind, soul, or nature
- insightful — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- insufflate — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- irefulness — The state of being ireful; anger; fury.
- isoflavone — a phytoestrogen produced chiefly by plants of the legume family, especially soybeans, potentially useful in lowering cholesterol and in treating some cancers and menopausal symptoms.
- isoflurane — a volatile, halogenated ether, C 3 H 2 ClF 5 O, used as a general anesthetic in surgery.
- joyfulness — full of joy, as a person or one's heart; glad; delighted.
- just folks — Usually, folks. (used with a plural verb) people in general: Folks say there wasn't much rain last summer.
- la flesche — Susette (Inshta Theumba"Bright Eyes") 1854–1903, U.S. author, Native American activist, and lecturer.
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- lawfulness — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- leaf scald — a bacterial disease of sugarcane, characterized by irregular, bleached streaks on the leaves and defoliation and caused especially by Bacterium albilineans.
- leaf sight — a folding rear sight on certain rifles
- leafstalks — Plural form of leafstalk.
- left stage — the part of the stage that is left of center as one faces the audience.
- legal fees — fees paid to lawyers
- leisureful — Providing leisure, restful.
- leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- life class — nude drawing lesson
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- life story — an account of all the events that happened to someone during their life
- life-saver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.