10-letter words containing a, t, f
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- caffeinate — To add caffeine.
- calefactor — a heater
- call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland
- carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- cat's-foot — a European plant, Antennaria dioica, with whitish woolly leaves and heads of typically white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- catafalque — a temporary raised platform on which a body lies in state before or during a funeral
- catch fire — to ignite
- catchflies — Plural form of catchfly.
- catfishing — Present participle of catfish.
- cefmatilen — An orally active cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chair lift — A chair lift is a line of chairs that hang from a moving cable and carry people up and down a mountain or ski slope.
- chairlifts — Plural form of chairlift.
- chief mate — first mate.
- chieftains — Plural form of chieftain.
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- cofavorite — a joint favourite
- 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
- confessant — a person who makes a confession
- 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.
- 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
- conformant — In accordance with a set of specifications.
- confrontal — a confrontation
- 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.
- cotransfer — a simultaneous transfer of multiple genes
- courtcraft — the artifices and intrigues of a royal court
- cowfeteria — a calf feeder with multiple teats
- craft beer — a specialized beer produced in limited quantities by a small, usually independent brewery
- craft brew — an all-malt or nearly all-malt specialty beer usually brewed in a small, regional brewery.
- craft fair — A craft fair is an event at which people sell goods they have made.
- craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- cyathiform — shaped like a drinking glass or cup, with a wider upper section
- data frame — activation record
- deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
- deafmutism — unable to hear and speak.
- defacement — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defalcated — Simple past tense and past participle of defalcate.
- defalcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defalcate.