Shaft

Definition: Shaft

Shaft

Noun

1. A line that forms the length of an arrow pointer.

2. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets".

3. A long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow).

4. A column of light (as from a beacon).

5. The main (mid) section of a long bone.

6. Obscene terms for penis.

7. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.

8. A vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator).

9. Upright consisting of the vertical part of a column.

10. : a vertical passage into a mine.

11. : a revolving rod that transmits power or motion.

12. : the hollow shaft of a feather.

Verb

1. Defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shaft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Metallurgy

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Shaft

Airpipe

Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack.

Arms

Pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah; cattle prod; chemical mace.

Depth

Hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell.

Instrument

Handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm, treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.

Opening

Way, path; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube, pipe; water pipe; air pipe; vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.

Rotation

Axis, axis of rotation, swivel, pivot, pivot point; axle, spindle, pin, hinge, pole, arbor, bobbin, mandrel; axle shaft; gymbal; hub, hub of rotation.

Support

Post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle; pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post, jamb, door jamb.

Crosswords: Shaft

But I'm talkin' about Shaft ("Theme From Shaft"; performing artist: Isaac Hayes)

Shaft ("Theme From Shaft"; performing artist: Isaac Hayes)

Shaft! ("Theme From Shaft"; performing artist: Isaac Hayes)

You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother-- ("Theme From Shaft"; performing artist: Isaac Hayes)

I wish shaft was pleasure (I Cry; performing artist: Ja Rule)

Shaft in Africa (1973)

Shaft (performing artist: Isaac Hayes)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Bearing Housings and Plain Shaft Bearings: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A Shaft of Sunlight (reference)

• A shaft of sunlight : memories of a varied life (reference)

• Escape Shaft (reference)

• Honda Shaft Drive: Atc250 and Fourtrax 200-250: 1984-1987: Service, Repair, Maintenance/A455 (reference)

• Kawasaki 900 and 1000Cc Fours, 1973-1980, Includes Shaft Drive: Service, Repair, Performance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Shaft (reference)

• Shaft in Africa (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• An Evening With Dando Shaft (reference)

• Dando Shaft / Lantaloon (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ryobi 825R 4-Cycle Curved Shaft TrimmerPlus (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A bizarre effect of time-lapse photography makes Clean Air Facility appear to be illuminated by triangular shaft of reflected sunlight. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A rain shaft pierces a tropical sunset as seen from Man-of-War Bay. Credit: Small World.

African American farmers, Leo and Edward Jenkins own and operate this farm in Washington County in the Mississippi Delta. The grow cotton, soybeans, wheat, and vegitables. Here Edward attaches drive shaft. Credit: USDA.

An emerald shaft of light reflects upon Aravaipa Creek. Credit: Christine Maxa.

AML Poorman, Vale District, Oregon. entrance to mine shaft. Credit: John Craig.

Overturned on the reef, on the western side of Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, during salvage work after the storm. Note the gun mounted on her poop deck, and bent propeller shaft visible at her stern. Credit: NAVY.

Being prepared for launching, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, on 7 December 1942. Note the shape of her after hull, with inboard propeller shafts incorporated in the hull skegs, and twin rudder posts directly aft of them. The starboard outboard propeller shaft is also visible, at right. Credit: NAVY.

Man and beast toiling in perpetual night--hauling coal to the shaft, M. & C. bituminous mines, Decatur, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Central repair shop, Salem, Virginia. U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps Director, James J. McEntee, looks on while enrollees receive direction from instructor L.W. Overstreet for assemblying crank shaft, connecting rods, etc. Left to right: L.W. Overstre. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pa., shaft house. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

A sidedoor of the theatre opened suddenly and a shaft of light flew across the grassplots

He worked the rod against the shaft.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Nits are found firmly attached to the hair shaft. (references)

Nit (head lice egg) combs, often found in lice medicine packages should be used to remove nits and lice from the hair shaft. (references)

Among the recent technical advances are extremely small probes that fit 16 electrodes on a shaft finer than a human hair. Integrated into a neural prosthesis, this type of electrode could provide extremely selective stimulation within the CNS, allowing the patient much more refined muscle control and a greater range of function. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "shaft": accessory shaft ♦ Air shaft ♦ Angle shaft ♦ armature shaft ♦ Banded shaft ♦ but shaft ♦ Butt shaft ♦ cam shaft ♦ cardan shaft ♦ clutch shaft ♦ collimator shaft ♦ crank shaft ♦ cranked portion of a shaft ♦ disengaging shaft ♦ distorted shaft ♦ downcast shaft ♦ drive shaft ♦ driving shaft ♦ drop shaft ♦ elevator shaft ♦ engine shaft ♦ equivalent shaft horsepower ♦ hair shaft ♦ heald shaft ♦ intermediate shaft ♦ Jack shaft ♦ Lay shaft ♦ Line shaft ♦ main shaft ♦ multiple spline shaft ♦ multiple splined shaft ♦ paddle shaft ♦ parthian shaft ♦ plain shaft ♦ plain shaft bearing ♦ plough shaft ♦ profiled shaft ♦ prop shaft ♦ propeller shaft ♦ rock shaft ♦ rocking shaft ♦ rotating shaft ♦ rotor shaft ♦ saw shaft ♦ shaft a horse ♦ shaft alley ♦ shaft coupling ♦ shaft end ♦ shaft furnace ♦ shaft louse ♦ shaft of light ♦ shaft of loom ♦ shaft spillway ♦ shaft station ♦ shaft tube ♦ shaft tunnel ♦ shouldered shaft ♦ sink a shaft ♦ step shaft ♦ stepped shaft ♦ stilling well shaft ♦ taper shaft ♦ telescopic shaft ♦ torque shaft ♦ transmission shaft ♦ tubular shaft ♦ tunnel shaft ♦ turbo shaft power plant ♦ upcast shaft ♦ ventilating shaft ♦ ventilation shaft ♦ warped shaft ♦ way shaft ♦ whim shaft. Additional references.

Beginning with "shaft": shaft-driven, shaft-grave, shaft-horse, shaft-mining.

Ending with "shaft": lift-shaft, mine-shaft, well-shaft.

Afrikaans

aandryfas (drive shaft, driving axle). (various references)

Albanian

spicë (radius, splinter, spoke), shtizë (gad, javelin, lance, Pike, pole, spear, staff), shigjetë (arrow, dart, hand, index, indicator, missile, needle, pointer, spire, steel, steeple), trup (bodice, body, build, bulk, case, constitution, flesh, frame, personnel, staff), timon (beam, handlebar, helm rudder, pole, rudder, steering wheel, turnstile, wheel), rreze (beam, flicker, gleam, radius, Ray), pus miniere (pit), kullë ashensori (well), bosht (Arista, axis, axle, axletree, bobbin, fulcrum, kingbolt, kingpin, pivot, spindle), aks (axis, pivot, spindle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقبض (grasp, grip, grip handle, haft, handgrip, handle, inlet, lever, lug, panhandle, power outlet, shank, socket, squeeze, stick), ‏محور (axis, center, centre, heart, hub, pivot, spin, spindle, spun), ‏نكح (ride, screw, sex, shag), ‏نقالة (hand-barrow, litter, stretcher), ‏قضيب (bar, baton, draw-bar, mace, penis, phallus, pointer, rail, rod, staff, stem, stick, switch, wand), ‏حوض المحرك, ‏سهم (arrow, dart, matrass, share), ‏عمود المحرك, ‏جسم العظم, ‏إسطوانة العمود, ‏ركب عمود, ‏رمح (javelin, lance, pike, spear), ‏شعاع (bar, beam, radiation, ray, streak), ‏بصيص (flicker, glitter, ray), ‏بئر المصعد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

копие (assagai, assegai, carbon copy, copy, counterpart, ditto, double, duplicate, imitation, javelin, manifold, print off, repetition, replication, reproduction, spear, tally, transcript, transcription), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), процеп (chimney, crevice, pole, rent), лъч (beam, gleam, shoot), аръш (pole, saddle), мятам (cast, drive, fling, launch, pitch, put on, sell, send, shoot, sling, slip over, spoof, swing, throw, toss, tumble about), мълния (bolt, flash, lightning, thunder, thunderbolt), ос (axis, axle, axletree, kingbolt, pin, shank, spindle, stalk, tree), островърха кула (steeple), дръжка на копие (pikestaff), гръм (bark, bolt, boom, clap, crack, peal, reverberation, thunder, thunder peal, thunderbolt, thunderclap), стълб (column, pier, pile, pillar, pole, post, riser, staff, stanchion, standard, verge), колона (column, pier, pillar, shank, tige, upright, verge), комин (chimney, chimney stack, smokestack, vent), шпиндел (spindle), шахта (chute, pit, trunk, well), теглич (beam, rod, shank, tongue), сноп (bar, sheaf), ствол (bole, quill, shank, stem, stock, trunk), стрела (arrow, bolt, boom, dart, jibe, lead, outrigger), стъбло (peduncle, pivot, scape, shank, stalk, stock, tige, trunk), вал (axle, billow, roller, spindle, tree). (various references)

Chinese 

辕子, 輈 (beam, pole), 矛柄 , 箭桿 . (various references)

Czech

střela (bullet, kick, missile, projectile, slug), osa (axis, axle, pivot), kopí (Pike, spear), držadlo (grip, handle, holder, strap), šíp (arrow), šachta (pit, well). (various references)

Danish

stamme (stem, trunk), skakt (adit, chute, collimator shaft, core, cored hole, discharge pipe, gallery, hopper, lifting hole, plumb-line shaft, slot, tower, tunnel, void, well), skaft (arbor, body, handle, harness, leg, neck, plain stem, scapus, screw neck, shank, stem, stock, unthreaded portion), trækstang (draft arm, draught arm, lower arm, lower lift, lower link, neckyoke, pole, stay, tension rod, tie, tie rod, tie-rod, tongue, tongue truck), rotationsakse, ring (cordon line, eye, frenulum, frenum, grommet, loop, orthodontic band, pessary, pessulum, pessum, pit, ring, ring pessary), maskindrevet aksel, bul (bole, boll, trunk), brønd (fountain, well), aksel (axis, axle, spindle). (various references)

Dutch

schacht (pole, rod), as (arbor, ash, axis, axle, cinder, spindle). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝakto, ŝafto (arbor, spindle). (various references)

Farsi 

گلوله (Ball, Blob, Bullet, Cartridge, Gunshot, Missile, Pellet, Shot), بادکش , دسته (A, Administration, Army, Batch, Covey, Detachment, Hand, Handle, Helm, Hilt, Horde, Host, Ilk, Parcel, Party, School, Sect, Section, Set, Sheaf, Shog, Skein, Squad, Stack, Stem, Stud, Team, Usurer), دودکش (Chimney, Funnel, Stack, Tube, Uptake), استوانه (Cannon, Cylinder, Roller), خدنگ (Arrow), سابقه (Acquaintance, Antecedent, Background, History, Intellect, Precedence, Prehistory, Record, Scape), ستون (Column, Jamb, Pier, Pile, Pillar, Staple), بدنه (Body, Framework, Trunk), تیرانداختن , پرتوافکندن (Beam, Radiate), قلم (Entry, Pen, Style), چاه , چوب (Rod, Spunk, Stave, Stick, Timber, Wood), چوبه , نیزه (Dart, Gad, Gaff, Gig, Harpoon, Lance, Spear), میله (Axle, Bar, Beam, Filament, Gad, Lever, Pivot, Rod, Slat, Spike, Stem, Stilt, Style), پرتو (Aegis, Beam, Radiance, Ray, Rayon), تیر (Arrow, Bar, Dart, Gunshot, Ledger, Lug, Mast, Perch, Prop, Shot, Spike, Staff, Stanchion, Staple, Timber). (various references)

Finnish

akseli (axis, axle). (various references)

French

timon, puits, manche (shank), hampe, flèche, fût, cage, arbre. (various references)

Frisian

as (arbor, as, as if, as though, axis, axle, how, if, in a way, like, provided that, spindle, such as). (various references)

German

Welle (Arbor, axle, billow, circle, craze, kink, light wave, ridge, spindle, stem, warp, wave, wavelength), Schacht (chute, drain, duct, funnel, manhole, well), Stiel (blade, broomstick, handle, helve, knob, peduncle, petiole, shank, stalk, stem, stud), schaft (leg, shank, stalk, stock), achse (arbor, axis, axle, center line, pivot, spindle). (various references)

Greek 

άξονας (axis, axle). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוט (bar, boom, gad, pole, rod, roost, staff, stake, yoke), מחפורת (dugout, mine, sap, trench), ידית (grip, haft, handle, lug), יצול (pole), קת (butt, haft, handle), פיר (hole, pit, trench), חוטר (branch, pointer, rod, shoot, slip, twig), חץ (arrow, dart). (various references)

Hungarian

nyíl (arrow, bow, dart, finger, reed), nyél (grip, haft, handle, helve, hilt, mounting, pile, pole, shank, stave, stele, stem, stock), liftakna, bibeszál (style), derék (body, brave, butt, good, shank, stalwart, upstanding, waist, well done, worthy), fénynyaláb (beam of rays), fénysugár (bar, beam, gleam, ray, trail of light), hajítódárda (dart, spear), hímvessző (dicky, dong, dork, john thomas, peter, thingy, weenie, yard), kibaszás, akna (grenade, mine, pit, shell, sink, tunnel, well), lándzsa (arme blanche, assagai, assegai, lance, pike, spear), tengely (axis, axle, axle-tree, centerline, centre line, pivot, spindle, spool), nyüst (warp), nyílvessző (arrow, bolt), szár (barrel, beam, body, haulm, holder, leg, shank, stalk, stem), szekérrúd, tárna (adit, course, drift way, mine adit, road), törzs (body, clan, Hull, kin, parent stock, phylum, shank, staff, stem, stock, stub, stump, tribe, trunk), kocsirúd (beam, limber, perch, pole, recoil rod). (various references)

Indonesian

tiang (baluster, beam, columm, distaff, pillar), corong (funnel, microphone, mine shaft, quill), ceruk (compartment, cranny, hole), cemuk (shake). (various references)

Italian

albero (arbor, mast, poplar, spindle, tree). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鉱坑 (mine, pit), 軸 (axis, axle, stem), 立て坑 , 縦穴 (pit), 縦坑 , 樹幹 (trunk), 円柱 (column, cylinder), シャトル外交 (Chanel, chaperon, shadow, shadow cabinet, shadow pitching, shadow stripe, shadowboxing, shadowing, Shannon, shovel, shuttle diplomacy, soap, young women completely outfitted in Chanel clothing and accessories), 心棒　 (axle), 心棒 (axle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たてこう, たてあな (pit), しんぼう (atrium, axle, careful, chamber of the heart, confidence, deeply laid plan, deliberate, endurance, patience, popularity, thoughtful), こうこう (baby chicken, brave, cruise, filial piety, great feudal lords, harbor entrance, higher technical school, incurable disease, mine, minehead, mouth cavity, pickled vegetables, pit, pithead, princes and marquises, senior high school, sexual union, surge, thefather of the current emperor, valiant, young and inexperienced person), シャフト , じゅかん (official Confucian teacher, trunk), じく (axis, axle, magnetic domain, stem, way of expression, wording, words and phrases), えんちゅう (column, cylinder). (various references)

Korean 

갱구. (various references)

Manx

towl (aperture, bore, bore of gun, boring, bung hole, burrow, cavity, crater, den, den of fox, earth, eyehole, hole, hollow, leak, penetration, perforation, port, pothole, vent, vent-hole, water supply), slogh (hollow, pit), side (arrow, bolt), rollian (axle tree, cylinder, penis, pulley, reel, roller, roulette, sheave, spindle whorl, spool, troll, whirler, whirler of thing), lhoo (pole, staff, thill), lauraghan (flail). (various references)

Pig Latin

aftshay.(various references)

Portuguese

fuste (bole, boll, trunk), eixo (axis, axle, center line, centre line, hub, kingpin, pivot, spindle). (various references)

Romanian

stâlp (adherent, backbone, column, pier, pilaster, pillar, pilot, post, prop, pylon, spile, staff, stake, stanchion, strut, stud, support, supporter, upholder), scânteiere (gleam, glisten, glitter, scintillation, sparkle), sãgeatã (arrow, lash, needle, Reed, sting), trunchi (block, frustrum, shank, stem, stock, stool, stub, stump, torso, trunk), razã (beam, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, compass, gleam, radiation, radius, Ray), puţ (pit, well), osie (Arbor, axis, axle, axle tree, spindle), mâner (gripe, haft, handgrip, handle, helve, hilt, knob, lever, lug), fus (cone, hasp, journal, linchpin, mandrel, spindle, Trunnion), coloanã (column, javelin, page, pillar, puncheon, trunk), coadã (brush, handle, pigtail, queue, rear, shank, staff, stalk, stem, tail, trail, train, tress), cabinã de lift, ax (Arbor, axis, spindle), înţepãturã (jeer, jest, parting shot, prick, sting, twinge). (various references)

Russian 

ствол (barrel, bole, stem, trunk), стержень (arm, bar, bolt, center, centre, core, peg, pivot, rod, scape, shank, spindle, stud), стебель (footstalk, pedicle, scape, shank, stalk, stem), ручка (arm, grip, haft, handle, holder, knob, lug, pen, penholder, pud, pud 1, stick, stock), шахта (coal pit, mine, pit), колонна (column, pillar, stanchion), копье (gad, glaive, spear), вал;шпиндель, вал (arbour, bank, barrel, billow, bulwark, rampart, roller, spindle, tree, wall), ось (axes, axis, axle, axletree, axle-tree, bolt, center, centre, kingbolt, spindle), древко (pikestaff, pikestaves, staff). (various references)

Scottish

cas (abrupt, curled, fire, foot, gnash the teeth, haft : casan, leg, oppose, passionate, paw, rash, steep, thwart, to close upon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratilo (axletree, beam, horizontal bar), ruda (kingbolt, limber, ore, thill), osovina (arbor, axis, axle, mandrel, spindle), okno, koplje (assegai, javelin, lance, pike, spear), držalje. (various references)

Spanish

pozo (cesspool, draw well, fountain, gantlet, gauntlet, hole, kike, mine, pit, pool, sink, well, wells), eje (axis, axle, axletree, hinge, hub, linchpin, pivot, spindle), árbol (arbor, tree). (various references)

Swedish

skaft (haft, handle, helve, leg, shank, stalk), schakt (excavation), axel (axis, axle, shoulder, spindle). (various references)

Thai

ถ่อด้วยคานไม้, ทางเดิน, กระทำอย่างไม่ยุติธรรม, ด้าม (holder). (various references)

Turkish

sap (butt, cauline, grip, haft, halm, handgrip, handhold, handle, haulm, helve, hilt, lug, nut, peduncle, scape, shank, stag, stalk, stem, stick, Stipe, stock), sütun (column, columnar, pillar, post, pylon, scape, stilt), ok sapı, mil (Arbor, axle, axle tree, cannon, gudgeon, mile, milliary, pin, pintle, pivot, probe, spindle, style, stylus, tree), mızrak (dart, javelin, lance, Pike, spear), kuyu (bore, coalpit, draw well, pit, well), hava bacası (air shaft, airway, upcast, upcast shaft, uptake), gönder (flagstaff, flagstick, pole), dingil (Arbor, axle, axle tree, spindle), bayrak direği (flagpole, flagstaff, flagstick, pole), baca (chimney, chimney stack, flue, funnel, pipe, smokestack, stack), şaft, araba oku (thill), aks (axle, axle tree), ışın (bar, beam, gleam, Ray, streak). (various references)

Turkmen 

guяy (well). (various references)

Ukrainian

стріла (arrow, dart), стовбур (body, bole, stem, trunk), рукоятка (brake, grasp, grip, gripe, hilt, lever, stale), голобля (limber, singletree), держак (haft, handgrip, handle, helve, holder). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngựa đóng vào trong càng xe (shaft-horse). (various references)

puteus. (various references)

sceaft. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "shaft": shafted, shafting, shaftings, shafts. (additional references)

Words ending with "shaft": camshaft, crankshaft, driveshaft, rockshaft, subshaft, turboshaft. (additional references)

Words containing "shaft": camshafts, crankshafts, driveshafts, rockshafts, subshafts, turboshafts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shaft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ashaf, saft, sahafa, saht, Satfa, scaft, schaft, Schatt, shaat, shaf, shaff, Shaffi, shafte, Shaftoe, shafy, shagt, shaht, shait, Shakti, shant, shapt, shart, Shefc, sheffi, shefi, shieft, Shifa, shifta, shifto, shiftx, shoft, shuf, shuft, skaft, staft, Swatf, Tuhafut. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hafts.

-1 letter: fash, fast, fats, haft, hast, hats.

-2 letters: aft, ash, fas, fat, has, hat, sat, sha, tas.

-3 letters: ah, as, at, fa, ha, sh, ta.

+1 letter: faiths, shafts.

+2 letters: batfish, catfish, fathers, fathoms, fattish, haffets, haffits, hafters, hatfuls, hatsful, ratfish, shafted.

+3 letters: camshaft, dayshift, faintish, farthest, fatheads, feathers, fishtail, flatfish, flattish, flatwash, fraughts, futharcs, futharks, ghastful, goatfish, haftaras, handfast, hasteful, haylofts, holdfast, misfaith, pooftahs, shafting, softhead, starfish, subshaft, toadfish, unfaiths.

+4 letters: affrights, batfishes, camshafts, catfights, catfishes, chaffiest, dayshifts, faithfuls, faithless, fanlights, farthings, firsthand, fishplate, fishtails, flashiest, flashtube, flatheads, footbaths, footpaths, forsythia, gearshift, haftarahs, haftorahs, halftimes, halftones, handfasts, headfirst, hoarfrost, holdfasts, hoofbeats, lightfast, makeshift, misfaiths, platyfish, ratfishes, rockshaft, safelight, shaftings, shamefast, shiftable, shortfall, softheads, soothfast, subshafts.