10-letter words containing f, s
- faisalabad — a city in NE Pakistan: commercial and manufacturing centre of a cotton- and wheat-growing region; university (1961). Pop: 2 533 000 (2005 est)
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- faldstools — Plural form of faldstool.
- fall short — not be satisfactory
- fallacious — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- fallboards — Plural form of fallboard.
- fallowness — (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
- false aloe — any of several plants of the genus Manfreda, especially M. virginica, of the southeastern U.S., having spikes of fragrant, greenish-yellow flowers.
- false cast — a throw of the line in fly casting in which the line, leader, and fly are prevented from hitting the water.
- false dawn — zodiacal light occurring before sunrise.
- false face — a mask covering the face.
- false keel — an extension to the keel of a vessel either for protecting the keel from damage or for reducing leeway
- false move — a movement that may be interpreted as threatening.
- false pond — a mirage.
- false ribs — any of the lower five ribs on either side of the body, which are not directly attached to the sternum.
- false step — a stumble.
- false-card — to play a false card.
- falsehoods — Plural form of falsehood.
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.
- falsidical — based on a falsehood
- falsifiers — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- falsifying — Present participle of falsify.
- familistic — the subordination of the personal interests and prerogatives of an individual to the values and demands of the family: Familism characterized the patriarchal family.
- familyless — Without a family.
- famishment — Starvation; the fact or process of being famished.
- famousness — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- fan-shaped — shaped like a fan
- fanaticise — Alternative spelling of fanaticize.
- fanaticism — fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
- fantasised — Simple past tense and past participle of fantasise.
- fantasized — Simple past tense and past participle of fantasize.
- fantasizer — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- fantasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fantasize.
- fantastick — Obsolete form of fantastic.
- fantastico — a very bizarre person.
- far-seeing — having foresight; sagacious; discerning.
- fare stage — a section of a bus journey for which a set charge is made
- farmhouses — Plural form of farmhouse.
- farmsteads — Plural form of farmstead.
- farnsworth — Philo Taylor [fahy-loh] /ˈfaɪ loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1906–71, U.S. physicist and inventor: pioneer in the field of television.
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fasciation — the act of binding up or bandaging.
- fascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- fasciculus — a fascicle, as of nerve or muscle fibers.
- fascinated — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- fascinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fascinate.
- fascinator — a person or thing that fascinates.
- fasciotomy — (surgery) The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
- fascistize — to make fascist; convert to fascism or a fascist philosophy or methods.
- fascistoid — Resembling fascism.