13-letter words containing c, h, i, e, f
- 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 polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- 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
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- 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
- middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- 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
- office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
- 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.
- piece of shit — despicable person
- 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.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- 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.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park