10-letter words containing a, c, f
- clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clark fork — river flowing from W Mont. northwest into Pend Oreille Lake in N Ida.: c. 300 mi (483 km)
- classified — Classified information or documents are officially secret.
- classifier — a person or thing that classifies.
- classifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of classify.
- clay flour — dried and pulverized clay.
- clear-fell — to cut down all of the trees in (a wood, part of a wood, or throughout an area of land)
- clearfield — a town in N Utah.
- cliff face — the vertical face of a cliff
- cliff-hang — to wait eagerly for the outcome of a suspenseful situation or contest.
- clip frame — a picture frame that is held together by clips attaching the glass to the backing
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- clock face — the dial of an analogue clock, marked with divisions representing units of time
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.
- coal field — an area containing significant coal deposits.
- coalfields — Plural form of coalfield.
- cockchafer — any of various Old World scarabaeid beetles, esp Melolontha melolontha of Europe, whose larvae feed on crops and grasses
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- coffee and — coffee and a snack.
- coffee bag — a small bag containing ground coffee beans, infused to make coffee
- coffee bar — A coffee bar is a small café where non-alcoholic drinks and snacks are sold.
- coffee-and — coffee and a snack.
- coffeecake — a kind of cake or roll, often containing nuts, raisins, etc. or coated with sugar or icing, to be eaten with coffee or the like
- cofferdams — Plural form of cofferdam.
- cold frame — A cold frame is a wooden frame with a glass top in which you grow small plants to protect them from cold weather.
- colourfast — A fabric that is colourfast has a colour that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- compactify — to make or become compact
- confabular — of or relating to confabulation
- confederal — being or of a confederation of independent nations or states
- conferable — Alternative spelling of conferrable.
- confessant — a person who makes a confession
- confidable — Able to be entrusted with secrets, or private information.
- confidante — Someone's confidante is a woman who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
- confidants — a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.
- confinable — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
- confirmand — a candidate for confirmation
- confiscate — If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
- conflating — Present participle of conflate.
- conflation — a combining, as of two variant readings of a text into a composite reading
- confocally — in a confocal manner
- conformant — In accordance with a set of specifications.
- confrontal — a confrontation
- confusable — Able or liable to be confused with something else.
- confusably — In a confusable way; such that they may be confused.
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- contraflow — A contraflow is a situation in which vehicles travelling on a main road in one direction have to use lanes that are normally used by traffic travelling in the opposite direction, because the road is being repaired.
- cop a feel — to perceive or examine by touch.
- coral fern — a scrambling fern of the genus Gleichenia, having repeatedly forked fronds
- coral reef — A coral reef is a long narrow mass of coral and other substances, the top of which is usually just above or just below the surface of the sea.