10-letter words containing h, a, f, i
- famishment — Starvation; the fact or process of being famished.
- fang lizhi — 1936–2012, Chinese astrophysicist and human-rights campaigner, lived in the US from 1990
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fashioners — Plural form of fashioner.
- fashioning — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- fashionist — (archaic) An obsequious follower of fashion.
- fast pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched at a high speed with an underhand motion
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- fauxhemian — Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
- feathering — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- felspathic — feldspathic.
- fianchetto — the development of a bishop, in an opening move, by advancing one or two pawns so as to permit movement along the bishop's diagonal.
- fiddlehead — Nautical. a billethead having a form similar to the volute carved at the upper end of a violin.
- field hand — a person who works in the fields of a farm or plantation.
- fight back — retaliate
- figurehead — a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: Most modern kings and queens are figureheads.
- finishable — That can be finished; completable.
- first hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- first-hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- fish balls — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
- fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
- fish paste — something you can spread on bread, made from fish which has been ground
- fish sauce — a spicy sauce made from the fermented liquid of salt-cured fish, especially anchovies, popular as a flavoring or condiment in Southeast Asian cookery.
- fishplates — Plural form of fishplate.
- fishtailed — Simple past tense and past participle of fishtail.
- fixed head — a recording head in a tape recorder or disk drive that cannot be moved relative to the center of the disk, offering reduced access time.
- flapperish — in the style of a flapper
- flash unit — an electronic flash and its power supply in a compact unit.
- flashiness — The quality of being flashy.
- flashlight — Also called, especially British, torch. a small, portable electric lamp powered by dry batteries, LEDs, or a tiny generator.
- flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
- flat light — even front lighting of a subject, producing little contrast, no shadows, and no modeling.
- flat white — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and nonfrothy steamed milk.
- flaunching — The sloped mortar fillet around the base of a chimney pot, which serves to hold the pot in position and allow rainwater to run off.
- flight bag — a lightweight shoulder bag designed for carrying sundries aboard an aircraft.
- flight cap — a wedge-shaped cap of cotton or woolen fabric, worn as part of the service uniform.
- flight pay — a pay supplement allowed by the U.S. Air Force to certain crew members who attain a minimum flight time per month.
- flip chart — a set of sheets, as of cardboard or paper, hinged at the top so that they can be flipped over to show information or illustrations in sequence.
- fluid head — The fluid head is the pressure which is measured by the height to which fluid that is being pumped can be raised by the pressure.
- food chain — hierarchy of organisms
- foodaholic — a person having an excessive, often uncontrollable craving for food.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- framingham — a town in E Massachusetts.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franchises — Plural form of franchise.