15-letter words containing f, i, l, c, h
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- nitrochloroform — chloropicrin.
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
- ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- the classifieds — a section of classified advertising in a publication
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.