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10-letter words containing i, t, s, a, f

  • first dark — twilight.
  • first hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
  • first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • first mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
  • first name — given or Christian name
  • first year — the first year when someone is at university or college
  • first-hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
  • first-name — of or relating to one's first, or given, name; familiar; intimate: They were on a first-name basis soon after meeting.
  • first-rate — excellent; superb.
  • 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.
  • fixed star — any of the stars which apparently always retain the same position in respect to one another.
  • flagitious — shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.
  • flagsticks — Plural form of flagstick.
  • 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 ascii — (text)   (Or "plain ASCII") Said of a text file that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and uses only ASCII-standard control characters (that is, has no embedded codes specific to a particular text formatter markup language, or output device, and no meta-characters). Compare flat file.
  • flatteries — Plural form of flattery.
  • flauntiest — Superlative form of flaunty.
  • flavourist — a chemist who blends ingredients to create artificial flavours or scents, for food or perfume
  • florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • flotations — Plural form of flotation.
  • fluvialist — a person who explains geological or geographical phenomena by the action of streams
  • fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
  • formations — Plural form of formation.
  • formatives — Plural form of formative.
  • formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
  • fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
  • forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
  • fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
  • fortransit — (language)   Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
  • 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.
  • fraternise — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
  • fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
  • fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
  • frugalista — (informal) A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty.
  • fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
  • fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
  • fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
  • fungistats — Plural form of fungistat.
  • fustianist — a person who uses pompous or bombastic language
  • fustianize — to use pompous or bombastic language
  • fustigated — Simple past tense and past participle of fustigate.
  • fustinella — a short stiff skirt, usually pleated, made of white cotton or linen, worn by men in some parts of the Balkans.
  • gas fitter — a person who installs gas pipes and apparatus in buildings.
  • gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
  • goatfishes — Plural form of goatfish.
  • graffitist — plural of graffito.
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