12-letter words containing f, e, c, h
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
- escape shaft — a shaft in a mine through which miners can escape if the regular shaft is blocked
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- feel cheated — If you feel cheated, you feel that you have been let down or treated unfairly.
- festschrifts — Plural form of festschrift.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- flat-chested — If you describe a woman as flat-chested, you mean that she has small breasts.
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
- flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
- fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- focal length — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
- french congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- french curve — a flat drafting instrument, usually consisting of a sheet of clear plastic, the edges of which are cut into several scroll-like curves enabling a draftsperson to draw lines of varying curvature.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french franc — the former standard monetary unit of France, most French dependencies, Andorra, and Monaco, divided into 100 centimes; replaced by the euro in 2002
- french fries — thin fried sticks of potato
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- french twist — French roll.
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.