12-letter words containing h, i, c
- eschscholzia — Any of the flowers in the Eschscholzia genus, especially the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica).
- esthetically — Alternative spelling of aesthetically.
- estheticians — Plural form of esthetician.
- etheromaniac — a person who is addicted to ether
- ethical code — an ethical code is a set of moral principles used to govern the conduct of a profession
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- ethnocentric — Evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture.
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- ethnological — Of or pertaining to ethnology.
- ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- everchanging — Which changes frequently and, presumably, will continue to do so forever.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
- extrahepatic — Originating or occurring outside the liver.
- eye-catching — Something that is eye-catching is very noticeable.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- fairchild f8 — (processor) An 8-bit microprocessor. The processor itself had no address bus - program and data memory access were contained in separate units, which reduced the number of pins and the associated cost. It also featured 64 registers, accessed by the ISAR register in cells (register windows) of eight, which meant external RAM wasn't always needed for small applications. In addition, the 2-chip processor didn't need support chips, unlike others which needed seven or more. The F8 inspired other similar CPUs, such as the Intel 8048. The use of the ISAR register allowed a subroutine to be entered without saving a bunch of registers, speeding execution - the ISAR would just be changed. Special purpose registers were stored in the second cell (regs 9-15), and the first eight registers were accessed directly. The windowing concept was useful, but only the register pointed to by the ISAR could be accessed - to access other registers the ISAR was incremented or decremented through the window.
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- fashion icon — a person or thing that is very well known as being highly fashionable
- festschrifts — Plural form of festschrift.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french fries — thin fried sticks of potato
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- french twist — French roll.
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.