14-letter words containing c, h, r, e, s
- eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
- ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
- electric shock — electric current entering the body
- electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- erythrocytosis — Polycythemia.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- exercise bench — (in a gymnasium) a low table, which may be inclined, used for various exercises
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- eyeball search — (jargon) (Or vgrep) To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical sensors, as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool. Compare vdiff, desk check.
- farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- geosynchronous — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- gynecomorphous — having the form, appearance, or attributes of a female.
- hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hardshell clam — quahog.
- hash character — (character) "#", ASCII character 35. Common names: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; crunch; hex; INTERCAL: mesh. Rare: grid; crosshatch; octothorpe; flash; ITU-T: square, pig-pen; tictactoe; scratchmark; thud; thump; splat. The pronunciation of "#" as "pound" is common in the US but a bad idea; Commonwealth Hackish has its own, rather more apposite use of "pound sign" (confusingly, on British keyboards the pound graphic happens to replace "#"; thus Britishers sometimes call "#" on a US-ASCII keyboard "pound", compounding the American error). The US usage derives from an old-fashioned commercial practice of using a "#" suffix to tag pound weights on bills of lading. The character is usually pronounced "hash" outside the US. The name "octothorpe" was made up by a Bell Labs supervisor, Don Macpherson.
- heading course — (in brickwork) a course of headers.
- health service — system of medical care
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- hepatopancreas — a large gland of shrimps, lobsters, and crabs that combines the functions of a liver and pancreas.
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- herbaceousness — The state or quality of being herbaceous.
- hercules'-club — a prickly North American araliaceous shrub, Aralia spinosa, with medicinal bark and leaves
- hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.