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11-letter words containing h, i, c

  • fast-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively rapidly, utilized especially in actions requiring maximum effort of short duration, as sprinting (distinguished from slow-twitch).
  • fax machine — facsimile machine
  • feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
  • feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
  • 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.
  • fetishistic — belief in or use of fetishes.
  • fever pitch — a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people: The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.
  • fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
  • fifth force — a theoretical force in nature in addition to the strong and weak forces, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
  • file attach — [FidoNet] 1. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another. 2. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer.
  • filthy rich — foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.
  • fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
  • fire cherry — pin cherry.
  • firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
  • 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.
  • fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
  • fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
  • 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.
  • flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
  • flight deck — Navy. the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, constructed and equipped for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
  • flinchingly — With a flinching motion.
  • flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
  • flitchplate — an iron or steel plate for reinforcing a flitch beam.
  • forthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
  • franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
  • franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
  • freight car — any car for carrying freight.
  • french kiss — kiss with tongues
  • french-kiss — soul kiss.
  • frenchified — Simple past tense and past participle of frenchify.
  • frog orchid — any of several orchids having greenish flowers thought to resemble small frogs, esp Coeloglossum viride of calcareous turf
  • fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
  • ftp archive — archive site
  • fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
  • funfkirchen — German name of Pécs.
  • furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
  • gang switch — a collection of switches connected to separate circuits and operating simultaneously.
  • gastrotrich — any of the microscopic, multicellular animals of the class or phylum Gastrotricha, of fresh or salt waters, characterized by bands of cilia on the ventral surface of the bottle-shaped or ribbony body and by a protrusible feeding apparatus at the mouth.
  • gegenschein — a faint, elliptical patch of light in the night sky that appears opposite the sun, being a reflection of sunlight by meteoric material in space.
  • gentileschi — Artemisia [ahr-tuh-mizh-uh,, -mizh-ee-uh;; Italian ahr-te-mee-zyah] /ˌɑr təˈmɪʒ ə,, -ˈmɪʒ i ə;; Italian ˌɑr tɛˈmi zyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1593?–1652? Italian painter.
  • geochemical — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
  • geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
  • geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
  • geotechnics — the application of science in order to utilize the earth's natural resources in engineering projects
  • germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
  • germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
  • get hitched — get married
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