10-letter words containing s, h, e, f
- foolishest — Superlative form of foolish.
- for shame! — you ought to be ashamed! here is cause for shame!
- forechoose — (transitive) To prefer; choose in preference.
- forechosen — pre-selected
- forehooves — Plural form of forehoof.
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- foresheets — Plural form of foresheet.
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- foreshores — Plural form of foreshore.
- foreshowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshow.
- foreshower — One who predicts.
- 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.
- 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.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- free house — a tavern that, having no affiliation or contract with a particular brewery, serves several brands of beer, ale, etc.
- free sheet — paper made entirely from chemical pulp and therefore free of groundwood.
- freesheets — Plural form of freesheet.
- freewheels — Plural form of freewheel.
- freighters — Plural form of freighter.
- fresh gale — a wind of 39–46 miles per hour (17–33 m/sec). Compare gale1 (def 2).
- freshen up — have a quick wash
- freshening — Present participle of freshen.
- fresherdom — the state of being a fresher
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- friendship — the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person's friendship.
- frightless — (obsolete) Free from fright; fearless.
- frightsome — Frightening; frightful; fearful; causing fear.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- frogfishes — Plural form of frogfish.
- frothiness — The quality of being frothy.
- full house — a hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair, as three queens and two tens.
- furnishers — Plural form of furnisher.
- furtherest — (nonstandard, humorous use only, informal) furthest.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- goatfishes — Plural form of goatfish.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- goldfishes — Plural form of goldfish.
- gooseflesh — goose bumps.
- half shell — either of the halves of a double-shelled creature, as of an oyster, clam, or other bivalve mollusk.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.