11-letter words containing h, e, c, s, r
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
- dichromates — Plural form of dichromate.
- dichroscope — an instrument for investigating the dichroism of solutions or crystals
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- dogcatchers — Plural form of dogcatcher.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
- echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- enchantress — A woman who uses magic or sorcery, esp. to put someone or something under a spell.
- encroachers — Plural form of encroacher.
- enfranchise — Give the right to vote to.
- enrichments — Plural form of enrichment.
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- erev pesach — the day before Passover
- erythristic — Exhibiting erythrism.
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- escharotomy — A surgical procedure in which an incision is made through eschar to expose the fatty tissue below.
- escherichia — a genus of Gram-negative rodlike bacteria that are found in the intestines of humans and many animals, esp E. coli, which is sometimes pathogenic and is widely used in genetic research
- eucharistic — (Theosophy) Pertaining to the Eucharist.
- eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
- farm cheese — a mild, firm pressed cheese
- festschrift — (often initial capital letter) a volume of articles, essays, etc., contributed by many authors in honor of a colleague, usually published on the occasion of retirement, an important anniversary, or the like.
- first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
- fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- fourchettes — Plural form of fourchette.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- free speech — freedom of speech.
- french kiss — kiss with tongues
- french rose — Provence rose.
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- french-kiss — soul kiss.
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- gatecrasher — a person who attends or enters a social function without an invitation, a theater without a ticket, etc.
- geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
- gopherspace — (networking) The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.