11-letter words containing c, i, s, e
- execrations — Plural form of execration.
- exercisable — Capable of being exercised, as a legal power.
- exotericism — The quality of being widely known or exoteric.
- experiences — Practical contact with and observation of facts or events.
- expiscation — the act of fishing out or finding out by investigation
- expiscatory — acting to expiscate; tending to expiscate
- exsiccation — The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture.
- exsiccative — Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
- extinctions — Plural form of extinction.
- extractions — Plural form of extraction.
- extractives — Plural form of extractive.
- extrinsical — (rare) Extrinsic.
- face-saving — something that saves one's prestige or dignity: Allow him the face-saver of resigning instead of being fired.
- facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- facilitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of facilitate.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- fanaticised — Simple past tense and past participle of fanaticise.
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- fasciculate — arranged in a fascicle or fascicles.
- fascinative — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- felicitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of felicitate.
- ferntickles — freckles
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- festschrift — (often initial capital letter) a volume of articles, essays, etc., contributed by many authors in honor of a colleague, usually published on the occasion of retirement, an important anniversary, or the like.
- fetishistic — belief in or use of fetishes.
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
- fictiveness — The quality of being fictive.
- fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- fieldpieces — Plural form of fieldpiece.
- fiery cross — a burning cross, the rallying symbol of ancient Scotland and later of the Highlanders in case of war; later adopted by other organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- finickiness — The quality of being finicky.
- fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
- fire screen — a screen placed in front of a fireplace for protection, especially from sparks.
- first cause — God.
- first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- fixed costs — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.