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10-letter words starting with fi

  • firstcomer — a person who arrives first or among the first.
  • firstfruit — Singular of firstfruits, an offering of the first of the harvest.
  • firstlings — Plural form of firstling.
  • fish balls — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
  • fish flake — a platform for drying fish.
  • fish flour — powdered fish, high in protein, used as an ingredient in other foods.
  • fish joint — a connection formed by fishplates at the meeting point of two rails, beams, etc, as on a railway
  • fish knife — a small knife with a spatulalike blade, used with a fork in cutting fish at table.
  • fish louse — any of numerous small crustaceans, especially certain copepods, parasitic on the skin and gills of fish.
  • fish paste — something you can spread on bread, made from fish which has been ground
  • fish queue — (humour)   (By analogy with FIFO - first-in, first-out) first in, still here. A joking way of pointing out that processing of a particular sequence of events or requests has stopped dead. Also "FISH mode" and "FISHnet"; the latter may be applied to any network that is running really slowly or exhibiting extreme flakiness.
  • 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.
  • fish slice — a broad-bladed kitchen implement with a long handle, for turning fish in frying.
  • fish stick — an oblong piece of fried fish, usually breaded.
  • fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
  • fish wheel — a trap for catching salmon, consisting of a revolving wheel with attached nets set in a river so that it is turned by the current to capture the passing fish.
  • fishburger — A burger made with fish instead of beef.
  • fisherfolk — People who catch fish for a living.
  • fishfinger — an oblong piece of filleted or minced fish coated in breadcrumbs
  • fishmonger — a dealer in fish, especially for eating.
  • fishplates — Plural form of fishplate.
  • fishtailed — Simple past tense and past participle of fishtail.
  • fissipedal — (zoology) Being or relating to a fissiped.
  • fissurella — (zoology) Any of the genus Fissurella of marine gastropod mollusks.
  • fistfights — Plural form of fistfight.
  • fisticuffs — a cuff or blow with the fist.
  • fitfulness — The quality of being fitful.
  • fittipaldi — Emerson. born 1946, Brazilian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion (1972,1974)
  • fitzgerald — Edward, 1809–83, English poet: translator of drama and poetry, especially of Omar Khayyám.
  • five towns — the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
  • five-a-day — the five portions of fruit and vegetables that people are recommended to eat every day as part of a healthy diet
  • five-speed — (in an automotive vehicle or bicycle) a transmission or system of gears having five forward gear ratios.
  • fixability — to repair; mend.
  • fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
  • fixed disk — (storage)   A hard disk which is not a removable disk.
  • 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.
  • fixed idea — a persistent or obsessing idea, often delusional, that can, in extreme form, be a symptom of psychosis.
  • fixed link — a permanent transport link, esp a bridge, between two geographical areas separated by water
  • fixed menu — a menu which does not change
  • fixed rate — A fixed rate is an interest rate that is set to remain the same for the term of a loan.
  • fixed sign — any of the four astrological signs, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or Aquarius, that are grouped together because of their placement midway between solstices and equinoxes and characterized by identification of those born under the sign with the shared attribute of motivation through subjective values toward a well-defined goal.
  • fixed star — any of the stars which apparently always retain the same position in respect to one another.
  • fixed-gear — Also called fixed-gear bicycle; Informal, fixie. a bicycle having a single-gear system and lacking a freewheel mechanism, so that the wheels only move when the pedals move.
  • fixed-wing — of or relating to aircraft that derive lift from the motion of air over aerodynamically designed surfaces that are rigidly and permanently attached to the fuselage.
  • fizzenless — weak, feeble, ineffectual
  • fizzle out — to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
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