11-letter words containing c, h, e, r, n
- free french — (in World War II) the French movement, organized in London under the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle, that repudiated the 1940 armistice with the Nazis and the government established at Vichy and fought for the liberation of France and the restoration of the republic.
- french arch — an arch similar to a flat arch, but having voussoirs inclined to the same angle on each side of the center.
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- french chop — a rib chop, usually of lamb, with the meat trimmed from the end of the bone.
- french cuff — a double cuff formed by folding back a wide band at the end of a sleeve, usually fastened by a cuff link.
- french door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french fact — (in Canada) the presence of French Canada as a distinct cultural force within the Confederation
- french flat — a flat that can be raised to or hung from the flies, and that contains practicable doors, windows, etc.
- french foot — Also called knurl toe, scroll foot, whorl foot. a foot of the mid-18th century having the form of a scroll, continuing the leg downward and outward, supported by a shoe.
- french harp — harmonica (def 1).
- french heel — a high, curved heel, characterized by a heel breast curving into a shank, used on women's shoes.
- french horn — a musical brass wind instrument with a long, coiled tube having a conical bore and a flaring bell.
- french kiss — kiss with tongues
- french knot — an ornamental stitch made by looping the thread three or four times around the needle before putting it into the fabric
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- french navy — a dark dull navy blue
- french roll — a circular or oval bread roll having a hard or crispy crust.
- french roof — a mansard roof the sides of which are nearly perpendicular.
- french rose — Provence rose.
- 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.
- french-kiss — soul kiss.
- frenchified — Simple past tense and past participle of frenchify.
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- funfkirchen — German name of Pécs.
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- gamechanger — A visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation.
- gnatcatcher — any tiny insect-eating, New World warbler of the genus Polioptila, having a long, mobile tail and a slender bill.
- godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- growth cone — a flattened area at the end of a growing axon or dendrite, having radiating filopodia and lemellopodia that function as guides for the outgrowth of embryonic nerve fibers.
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
- henchperson — a loyal supporter, follower, or subordinate
- heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heroin chic — the perceived glamorization of heroin and the characteristics associated with heroin addicts, such as gauntness and hollow eyes
- heterogenic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.