11-letter words containing s, c, h, i
- 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.
- enfranchise — Give the right to vote to.
- enrichments — Plural form of enrichment.
- erythristic — Exhibiting erythrism.
- 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
- esthetician — Alternative spelling of aesthetician.
- estheticism — aestheticism
- ethicalness — (rare) The state or quality of being ethical.
- ethnicities — Plural form of ethnicity.
- eucharistic — (Theosophy) Pertaining to the Eucharist.
- euphemistic — Using or of the nature of a euphemism.
- eurhythmics — Alternative spelling of eurythmics.
- facial wash — a beauty product which cleanses the skin of the face
- 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).
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- 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.
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- 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.
- 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.
- french kiss — kiss with tongues
- french-kiss — soul kiss.
- 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.
- 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
- ghostscript — (graphics, tool) The GNU interpreter for PostScript and PDF, with previewers for serval systems and many fonts. Ghostscript was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch <[email protected]> of Aladdin Enterprises. The first public release was v1.0 on 1988-08-11.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
- gonochorism — (biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gypsy winch — a small winch or crab.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- hackishness — (jargon) The quality of being or involving a hack. This term is considered mildly silly. Synonym hackitude.