11-letter words containing f, e, c, h
- 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.
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- 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.
- ftp archive — archive site
- funfkirchen — German name of Pécs.
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- half cocked — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
- half-cooked — not cooked thoroughly
- half-decade — a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hall effect — the electromotive force generated in a strip of metal longitudinally conducting an electric current and subjected to a magnetic field normal to its major surface.
- halo effect — a predisposition to admire all of a person's actions, work, etc., because of an estimable quality or action in the past.
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- hatchetfish — any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx, and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters, having a silvery, hatchet-shaped body.
- head office — headquarters
- holy office — a congregation founded in 1542 to succeed the suppressed Inquisition and entrusted with matters pertaining to faith and morals, as the judgment of heresy, the application of canonical punishment, and the examination of books and prohibition of those held dangerous to faith and morals.
- home office — the main office of a company.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- ice fishing — the act or practice of fishing through a hole cut in the ice.
- in the face — head on, directly