(a)
staff, giraffe,
path, lath,
brass, class, glass, grass, pass,
raft, craft, graft, daft, shaft, aft, haft, draft,
clasp, grasp, rasp, gasp,
blast, cast, fast, mast, aghast, last, past, contrast, vast, avast,
ask, bask, mask, flask, cask, task,
after, rafter, Shaftesbury,
master, plaster, disaster, castor, pastor, nasty, disastrous,
basket, casket, rascal,
fasten, raspberry, ghastly, castle,
laugh, laughter, draught;
(b)
dance, advance, chance, France, lance, glance, enhance, prance, trance, entrance v.,
grant, slant, aunt, chant, plant, advantage, vantage, chantry, supplant, enchant,
branch, blanch, ranch, stanch, stanchion,
demand, command, remand, slander, chandler, commando, Alexander, Sandra, Flanders,
example, sample,
chancel, chancellor, Frances, Francis, lancet, answer;
(c)
calf, half, calve, halve, rather, Slav,
shan't, can't,
Iraq, corral, morale, Iran, Sudan, banana.
chaff, graph, alas, hasp, Basque, masque,
plastic, drastic, elastic, gymnastic, (Cornish) pasty, enthusiastic, bastard, paschal, pastoral, masculine, masquerade, exasperate, blasphemy, masturbate, Glasgow,
lather, stance, askance, circumstantial, intransigent, substantial, transit, transport, transfer, transform, transitory, transient, transept, and other words in trans-;
contralto, alto, plaque, Cleopatra.