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13-letter words containing a, f, e, r

  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
  • certificatory — Serving to certify something.
  • channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
  • chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
  • charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
  • cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
  • circular file — a wastebasket
  • claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
  • class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
  • class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
  • confarreation — (in ancient Rome) the highest form of marriage, which was marked by the offering of a cake to Jupiter
  • confectionary — a place where confections are kept or made
  • confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
  • confederative — of confederates or a confederation
  • confessionary — of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
  • confraternity — a group of men united for some particular purpose, esp Christian laymen organized for religious or charitable service; brotherhood
  • confrontative — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
  • contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
  • control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
  • copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
  • coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
  • coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
  • counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
  • counter staff — people who work behind the counter of a bank, post office, etc
  • countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
  • creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
  • data transfer — (data)   Copying or moving data from one place to another, typically via some kind of network (e.g. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, File Transfer Protocol) or local data connection (bus, SCSI, IDE, SATA).
  • date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
  • day after day — If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
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