9-letter words containing a, c, f
- chauffeur — The chauffeur of a rich or important person is the man or woman who is employed to look after their car and drive them around in it.
- chayefsky — Paddy [pad-ee] /ˈpæd i/ (Show IPA), 1923–1981, U.S. playwright and director.
- chieftain — A chieftain is the leader of a tribe.
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- clam-flat — a level stretch of mud, exposed by the tide, where clams burrow.
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- clarifier — A clarifier is a vessel or stage in which remaining suspended solids are separated from a liquid to leave a clear overflow.
- clarifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clarify.
- classific — relating to classification
- claviform — clavate
- claw foot — a foot with claws.
- clear off — If you tell someone to clear off, you are telling them rather rudely to go away.
- cliffhang — (of a serial or film) to end on a note of suspense
- clockface — Alternative spelling of clock face.
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- coal fire — a mass of burning coal used esp in a hearth to heat a room
- coalfaces — Plural form of coalface.
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- code flag — a flag forming part of a signal code.
- cofactors — Plural form of cofactor.
- cofeature — a joint feature
- cofferdam — a watertight structure, usually of sheet piling, that encloses an area under water, pumped dry to enable construction work to be carried out. Below a certain depth a caisson is required
- cofinance — to be one of two or more organizations that provide finance for (an enterprise)
- colorfast — A fabric that is colorfast has a color that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- confabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of confab.
- conferral — a conferring of an honor, degree, or favor; bestowal
- confervae — Plural form of conferva.
- confidant — Someone's confidant is a man who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
- conflated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflate.
- conflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conflate.
- conformal — (of a transformation) preserving the angles of the depicted surface
- confucian — of or relating to the doctrines of Confucius
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- crack off — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- craftiest — Superlative form of crafty.
- craftless — without craft or cunning
- craftsman — A craftsman is a man who makes things skilfully with his hands.
- craftsmen — a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- cram-full — stuffed full
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- crane fly — any dipterous fly of the family Tipulidae, having long legs, slender wings, and a narrow body
- cream off — To cream off part of a group of people means to take them away and treat them in a special way, because they are better than the others.
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- crossfall — the camber of a road
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- cup final — the final of any cup competition
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.