13-letter words containing c, h, a, f, e
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- french guinea — former name of Guinea.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- funeral march — march played for funeral processions
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hatchet-faced — having a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- herb of grace — rue2 .
- herb-of-grace — rue2 .
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- lucifer match — friction match.
- make mischief — cause trouble
- match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- off the chain — wildly entertaining
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.