10-letter words containing i, f, s, a
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- 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).
- 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.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- meiofaunas — Plural form of meiofauna.
- mineshafts — Plural form of mineshaft.
- misfashion — To form or fashion wrongly.
- misfeature — a distorted feature.
- multiflash — (of a photographic image) created using several flashes in quick succession in order to depict the successive stages of a movement or action sequence
- mutessarif — an administrator or governor of a sanjak or province in the former Ottoman Empire
- myofascial — Of or relating to the layer of loose tissue (fascia) surrounding the muscle tissues.
- nanofossil — A nanosized fossil.
- neofascism — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- neofascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- night safe — a safe built into the outside wall of a bank, in which customers can deposit money at times when the bank is closed
- non-fiscal — of or relating to the public treasury or revenues: fiscal policies.
- nonfashion — Not directly related to fashion, or the fashion industry.
- oafishness — The state of being oafish.
- of fashion — of high social standing
- off-island — located or tending away from the shore of an island: an off-island current.
- officiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of officiate.
- oriflammes — Plural form of oriflamme.
- pacificism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- pacificist — a person who is opposed to violence
- pacifistic — of or relating to pacifism or pacifists.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- quantifies — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quasi-free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- rafsanjani — Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi, born 1935, president of Iran 1989–97.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.