12-letter words containing c, h, i, e, f
- greenfinches — Plural form of greenfinch.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
- hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
- high finance — large-scale financial transactions or institutions.
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- mischanceful — unlucky
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- night office — the office for matins.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- pinch effect — the tendency of an electric conductor or stream of charged particles to constrict, caused by the action of a magnetic field that is produced by a flow of electricity.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- reichsfuhrer — the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- space flight — journey into outer space
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- the flickers — the cinema
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
- white coffee — coffee: with milk