10-letter words containing f, s, m
- fundaments — Plural form of fundament.
- furosemide — A synthetic compound with a strong diuretic action, used especially in the treatment of edema.
- griffinism — the quality of having griffinish characteristics, or the condition of being a griffin
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hammerfest — a seaport in N Norway: the northernmost town in Europe.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- home fries — pan-fried potatoes
- homografts — Plural form of homograft.
- humidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humidify.
- imperfects — Plural form of imperfect.
- incisiform — having the shape of an incisor tooth
- infamonise — to defame, to brand with infamy
- infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- infirmness — The quality of being infirm; feebleness.
- informants — Plural form of informant.
- infusorium — (biology) An individual of the infusoria.
- jump-shift — a jump bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
- 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
- leitmotifs — Plural form of leitmotif.
- lemon fish — the cobia.
- 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.
- luftmensch — a person unconcerned with the practicalities of earning a living
- lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- magnifiers — Plural form of magnifier.
- main shaft — the principal shaft of a motor, transmission, etc. (distinguished from jackshaft).
- mainframes — Plural form of mainframe.
- make as if — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- make shift — to manage or do the best one can (with whatever means are at hand)
- makeshifts — Plural form of makeshift.
- mala fides — bad faith; intent to cheat or deceive. Compare bona fides (def 1).
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- man's fate — French La Condition Humaine. a novel (1933) by André Malraux.
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- manifested — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifester — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifestos — Plural form of manifesto.
- marrowfats — Plural form of marrowfat.
- marsh fern — a fern, Thelypteris palustris, having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- mcguffey's — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- medusiform — resembling a medusa or jellyfish
- megafaunas — Plural form of megafauna.
- meiofaunas — Plural form of meiofauna.
- mesofossil — A fossil of a small part of a plant, such as a fruit, leaf or seed.
- microfilms — Plural form of microfilm.