13-letter words containing a, f, o, r, e
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
- cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- 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
- 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.
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- default route — (networking) A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- diffarreation — (historical) A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.
- disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.