12-letter words containing c, h, e, r, i
- enchiridions — Plural form of enchiridion.
- encipherment — The act or process of enciphering; encryption.
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
- enharmonical — relating to the enharmonic scale
- epigraphical — Epigraphic.
- epirrhematic — relating to epirrhema
- eric the red — ?940–?1010 ad, Norse navigator: discovered and colonized Greenland; father of Leif Ericson
- erythrocytic — Of or pertaining to erythrocytes.
- erythromycin — An antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It is similar in its effects to penicillin.
- etheromaniac — a person who is addicted to ether
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- ethnocentric — Evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture.
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- everchanging — Which changes frequently and, presumably, will continue to do so forever.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- extrahepatic — Originating or occurring outside the liver.
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- festschrifts — Plural form of festschrift.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french fries — thin fried sticks of potato
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- french twist — French roll.
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geographical — of or relating to geography.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- gospel choir — a choir performing gospel music
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- greenfinches — Plural form of greenfinch.
- gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
- h paul grice — H(erbert) Paul, 1913–88, English philosopher.
- hacker ethic — (philosophy) 1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
- haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
- hagiocracies — Plural form of hagiocracy.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- halotrichite — a mineral, iron alum, isomorphous with pickeringite, occurring in the form of yellowish fibers.