12-letter words containing f, e, c, h
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pinch effect — the tendency of an electric conductor or stream of charged particles to constrict, caused by the action of a magnetic field that is produced by a flow of electricity.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- refuse chute — a chute in a building which rubbish and waste is thrown down to the main refuse bins, etc
- reichsfuhrer — the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.
- safety catch — a device used in mechanisms, as for elevators, to prevent falling in the event of mechanical failure.
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- safety match — a match designed to ignite only when rubbed on a specially prepared surface.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- schaffhausen — a canton in N Switzerland. 100 sq. mi. (259 sq. km).
- schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
- schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- shamefacedly — modest or bashful.
- sheep fescue — a widely distributed grass, Festuca ovina, having densely clustered stems and cultivated for lawns and forage.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- space flight — journey into outer space
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- the flickers — the cinema
- touchy-feely — Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- trench fever — a recurrent fever, often suffered by soldiers in trenches in World War I, caused by a rickettsia transmitted by the body louse.
- trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
- uncheerfully — without cheerfulness; in an uncheerful manner
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unhandcuffed — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
- white coffee — coffee: with milk