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14-letter words containing h, a, e, c

  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • french oceania — former name of French Polynesia.
  • french pancake — a thin, light pancake, usually served with a sweet or savory filling.
  • french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
  • friar preacher — a Dominican friar.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
  • galeopithecoid — of or resembling a flying lemur
  • galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
  • game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • gaming machine — for gambling
  • garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
  • genethliacally — from a genethliac point of view
  • genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
  • geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
  • geographically — of or relating to geography.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • glyceraldehyde — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 3 H 6 O 3 , that is an intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism and yields glycerol on reduction.
  • go to the pack — to fall into a lower state or condition
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • gouda (cheese) — a mild, semisoft to hard cheese similar to Edam and sometimes coated with red wax
  • grade-schooler — a pupil in a grade school.
  • graham cracker — a semisweet cracker, usually rectangular in shape, made chiefly of whole-wheat flour.
  • grammarchecker — (computing) A software application, like a spellchecker, that attempts to verify proper grammar in a document.
  • grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
  • graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
  • graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
  • graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
  • greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • greyhound race — a race in which greyhounds chase a dummy hare around a track
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
  • haematological — Alternative spelling of hematological.
  • haematopoietic — Of or pertaining to haematopoiesis.
  • haemocytometer — an apparatus for counting the number of cells in a quantity of blood, typically consisting of a graduated pipette for drawing and diluting the blood and a ruled glass slide on which the cells are counted under a microscope
  • hairline crack — a very fine crack
  • haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
  • hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • 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.
  • halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
  • hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
  • hamito-semitic — denoting or belonging to this family of languages
  • hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hard-core porn — Hard-core porn is pornography that shows sex in a very detailed way, or shows very violent or unpleasant sex.
  • hardshell clam — quahog.
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