14-letter words containing r, i, c, h, l, e
- electrochemist — A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- ethyl chloride — a colorless liquid, C2H5Cl, prepared by heating ethyl alcohol with hydrogen chloride in the presence of zinc chloride: used in preparing tetraethyl lead and ethyl cellulose, and as a local anesthetic
- exothermically — In an exothermic manner.
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
- firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- french tickler — a condom designed with knobs, projections, etc.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- 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)
- 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.
- hairline crack — a very fine crack
- haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- health service — system of medical care
- hedge clippers — clippers or shears used to trim hedges
- helicopter dad — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- helicopter mom — a style of child rearing in which an overprotective mother or father discourages a child's independence by being too involved in the child's life: In typical helicopter parenting, a mother or father swoops in at any sign of challenge or discomfort.
- helicopter pad — landing area
- heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
- hemerocallises — Plural form of hemerocallis.
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- heroic couplet — a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, especially one forming a rhetorical unit and written in an elevated style, as, Know then thyself, presume not God to scan / The proper study of Mankind is Man.
- herpetological — Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
- heteroclitical — (obsolete) Anomalous, heteroclite.
- heterolecithal — having an unequal distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
- hierarchically — of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hierarchy.
- hieroglyphical — Hieroglyphic: related to or resembling hieroglyphs.
- hierographical — hierographic
- highly charged — electrical
- hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.