10-letter words containing h, a, f, t
- fatherland — one's native country.
- fatherless — not having a living father: a fatherless boy.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fathometer — (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
- fathomless — impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
- fatshedera — an evergreen garden shrub with shiny green leaves and umbels of pale green flowers; a bigeneric hybrid between Fatsia japonica moseri and Hedera hibernica: family Araliaceae
- fearnaught — A fearless person.
- fearnought — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- featherbed — A bed that has a mattress stuffed with feathers.
- feathercut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- 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.
- fever heat — the heat of fever; body heat exceeding 98.6°F (37°C).
- 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.
- fight back — retaliate
- 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 paste — something you can spread on bread, made from fish which has been ground
- fishplates — Plural form of fishplate.
- fishtailed — Simple past tense and past participle of fishtail.
- flare path — an airstrip illuminated for use at night or in bad weather
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- flash unit — an electronic flash and its power supply in a compact unit.
- 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 thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
- flat white — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and nonfrothy steamed milk.
- flat-share — the state of living in a flat where each occupant shares the facilities and expenses
- flesh meat — the meat of birds or of animals other than fish, clams, etc., used as food
- 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.
- flow chart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- flowcharts — Plural form of flowchart.
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- forefather — an ancestor.
- foregather — forgather.
- forehearth — (in a blast furnace or cupola) a reservoir for iron or slag, accessible through a door at hearth level.
- 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.
- fraughtage — (obsolete) freight; cargo.
- fraughting — Present participle of fraught.
- freightage — the transportation of goods.
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- gayfeather — Many of the plant of the genus Liatris, native to North America, including Mexico, east of the continental divide.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.