14-letter words containing f, e, c, h
- half-concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- hearing defect — a physical condition that makes it difficult for a person to hear accurately
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
- house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
- hyperefficient — more efficient than normal
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- in the face of — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
- john c fremont — John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.
- kaffee klatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaffeeklatches — Plural form of kaffeeklatch.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
- machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
- march fracture — a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers (march fracture)
- merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
- mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- of the essence — the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features: Freedom is the very essence of our democracy.
- off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- off the record — making or affording a record.
- off-the-record — not for publication; not to be quoted: a candidate's off-the-record remarks to reporters.
- on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- over the fence — unreasonable, unfair, or unjust
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- piece of eight — peso (def 4).
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- ratchet effect — intermittent growth, increase, expansion, or the like: the ratchet effect of defense expenditures.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- relief pitcher — a pitcher brought into a game to replace another pitcher, often in a critical situation.
- ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- screen refresh — refresh rate
- self-enriching — to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.: Commerce enriches a nation.
- self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- sheep's fescue — a temperate perennial tufted grass, Festuca ovina, with narrow inwardly rolled leaves
- sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful