11-letter words containing c, e, a, s
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
- first cause — God.
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- forecasters — Plural form of forecaster.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- forinstance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- formicaries — Plural form of formicary.
- fort casper — a fort in central Wyoming, near Casper: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- foster care — the raising or supervision of foster children, as orphans or delinquents, in an institution, group home, or private home, usually arranged through a government or social-service agency that provides remuneration for expenses.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- franticness — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
- free ascent — the upward traveling or path of a rocket carried by its own inertia after its engine has stopped operating.
- freelancers — Plural form of freelancer.
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- galactoside — A glycoside yielding galactose on hydrolysis.
- gametocytes — Plural form of gametocyte.
- gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
- gas carrier — a ship used for the transportation of compressed or liquefied natural gas
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- gas furnace — a furnace using gas as a fuel.
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
- gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gatecrasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- gesticulant — making or tending to make gestures or gesticulations: a gesticulant speaker.
- gesticulate — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.