Phrase Hound found 5 phrases and 14 compound words that contain fasts. The most common are listed below. Open fasts in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 5
- bed-fastsplural of bed-fast: Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.
- black fastsplural of black fast: A form of fasting in which no food or drink (not even water) is consumed between midnight and sunset; after sunset a single meal is allowed, but even then meat, eggs, dairy products and alcohol are avoided.
- break fastsplural of break fast: Alternative form of breakfast (“meal eaten after fasting”).
- go-fastsplural of go-fast: A speedboat.
- tub-fastsplural of tub-fast: The treatment of venereal disease by sweating in a hot tub.
Compound words 14
- breakfastsplural of breakfast: The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
- bedfastsplural of bedfast: Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.
- deskfastsplural of deskfast: Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.
- handfastsplural of handfast: A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
- headfastsplural of headfast: A rope at the bows of a ship used to fasten it to a wharf, etc.
- holdfastsplural of holdfast: Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
- makefastsplural of makefast: Something to which a vessel can be made fast or tied, such as a cleat, post or bollard.
- outfaststhird-person singular simple present indicative of outfast: To surpass in fasting, or abstention from food.
- overfaststhird-person singular simple present indicative of overfast: Too quick.
- setfastsplural of setfast: A tumour on a horse's back.