Words ending with haft

Aftershaft means: The hypoptilum.

Air shaft means: A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

Butt shaft means: An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.

Countershaft means: An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

Foundershaft means: The first shaft sunk.

Haft means: A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt.

Haft means: A dwelling.

Haft means: To set in, or furnish with, a haft; as, to haft a dagger.

Prickshaft means: An arrow.

Rock shaft means: A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.