12-letter words containing a, f, o, r, e
- chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
- cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
- clayton fern — a tall fern, Osmunda claytoniana, of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having an interruption of growth in the center of some fronds.
- clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
- cock feather — the odd-coloured feather set on the shaft of an arrow at right angles to the nock
- coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
- coffee cream — cream for use in coffee; light cream.
- coffee maker — Also, coffeemaker. an apparatus for brewing coffee; coffeepot.
- coffee royal — café royale.
- coffee-maker — a domestic appliance that makes coffee
- coffeemakers — Plural form of coffeemaker.
- come forward — If someone comes forward, they offer to do something or to give some information in response to a request for help.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- confederated — Simple past tense and past participle of confederate.
- confederates — Plural form of confederate.
- conferential — Of or pertaining to a conference.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- confraternal — a lay brotherhood devoted to some purpose, especially to religious or charitable service.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- content farm — a website that exploits the way search engines retrieve and rank pages by incorporating popular search terms and topics in its content, often with little attention to the originality, appropriateness, or quality of the subject matter, in order to elevate the ranking of its articles in online search results and attract advertisers.
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
- counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- deformed bar — a rod for reinforcing concrete, having surface irregularities, as transverse ridges, to improve the bond.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- draft dodger — a person who evades or attempts to evade compulsory military service.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- exfiltration — (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.