| FAITHINGS | • FAITHING n. the act of believing. |
| FANLIGHTS | • fanlights n. Plural of fanlight. • FANLIGHT n. a half-circle window with crossbars arranged like ribs of fan. |
| FARTHINGS | • farthings n. Plural of farthing. • Farthings prop.n. Plural of Farthing. • FARTHING n. a former British coin, a quarter of a pre-decimal penny. |
| FIRSTHAND | • firsthand adj. Direct, without intermediate stages. • firsthand adj. Not previously owned or used; contrasted with secondhand. • firsthand adv. Directly or from personal experience. |
| HALFTONES | • halftones n. Plural of halftone. • half-tones n. Plural of half-tone. • half-tones v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of half-tone. |
| HANDFASTS | • handfasts n. Plural of handfast. • handfasts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handfast. • HANDFAST v. to betroth. |
| HANDSTAFF | • handstaff n. The part of a flail that is held in the hand. • handstaff n. (Obsolete) A weapon mentioned in the Bible (Ezekiel), perhaps a javelin. • HANDSTAFF n. a staff-like handle e.g. of a flail. |
| LOANSHIFT | • loanshift n. The situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language. • loanshift n. A word whose meaning has changed in this way. • LOANSHIFT n. the adaptation of a word from one language to another. |
| MANSHIFTS | • manshifts n. Plural of manshift. • MANSHIFT n. the work done by one person in one shift. |
| MINESHAFT | • mineshaft n. A vertical hole through the strata to reach the mineral which is being mined. • mine␣shaft n. Alternative form of mineshaft. • MINESHAFT n. a vertical entrance into a mine. |
| RANKSHIFT | • rankshift v. (Linguistics) To use a phrase as a subunit of a longer one. • rankshift n. The action of rankshifting. • RANKSHIFT v. to shift or be shifted from one linguistic rank to another. |
| SHAFTINGS | • shaftings n. Plural of shafting. • SHAFTING n. a system of rods for transmitting power. |