11-letter words that end in ch
- fever pitch — a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people: The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.
- 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.
- first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
- free church — (sometimes initial capital letters) a church free from state control. Compare established church.
- free french — (in World War II) the French movement, organized in London under the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle, that repudiated the 1940 armistice with the Nazis and the government established at Vichy and fought for the liberation of France and the restoration of the republic.
- free speech — freedom of speech.
- freeze-etch — to prepare (material) for the electron microscope by freeze etching.
- french arch — an arch similar to a flat arch, but having voussoirs inclined to the same angle on each side of the center.
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
- 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.
- gothic arch — a pointed arch, especially one having only two centers and equal radii.
- grand march — the opening ceremonies of a formal ball, in which guests promenade into or around the ballroom.
- grass finch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
- gymnasiarch — (in ancient Greece) a magistrate who superintended the gymnasia and public games in certain cities.
- gypsy winch — a small winch or crab.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- hall church — a Romanesque church in which the side aisles are equally high as the nave, and which has no clerestory, making the space rather dark.
- hand-stitch — to stitch or sew by hand.
- hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
- hate speech — speech that attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
- heterotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Heterotricha, having the body covered uniformly with short cilia.
- high church — pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition, especially in adherence to sacraments, rituals, and obedience to church authority.
- homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
- horse conch — a marine gastropod, Pleuroploca gigantea, having a yellowish, spired shell that grows to a length of 2 feet (0.6 meters).
- hotch-potch — A hotch-potch is an untidy mixture of different types of things.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- interchurch — interdenominational.
- java trench — a trench in the Indian Ocean, S of Java: deepest known part of Indian Ocean. 25,344 feet (7725 meters) deep.
- judge lynch — the personification of lynch law.
- kantorovich — Leonid Vitalyevich [ley-uh-nid vi-tal-yuh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet vyi-tah-lyuh-vyich] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd vɪˈtæl yə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit vyɪˈtɑ lyə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1912–86, Soviet mathematician and economist: Nobel Prize in Economics 1975.
- kill switch — a button, switch, or other mechanism that allows a machine to be shut down immediately: Only use the kill switch in emergencies.
- knit stitch — the most common stitch in knitting; stitches are formed on the left-hand needle by placing the point of the right-hand needle through the loop from left to right, winding the wool from the right-hand needle under the point of the right-hand needle and back across the front, pulling the loop through, and slipping the stitch off the left-hand needle
- knot stitch — a stitch that produces a knot on the fabric surface, made by twining the thread about the needle.
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- lancet arch — an arch having a head that is acutely pointed.
- leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.
- lightswitch — Alternative spelling of light switch.
- lock stitch — a sewing-machine stitch in which two threads are locked together at small intervals.
- long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
- loop stitch — any stitch, as the chain stitch, that uses loops in the pattern or process of working.
- lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
- miami beach — a city in SE Florida on an island 2½ miles (4 km) across Biscayne Bay from Miami: seaside resort.
- microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.