12-letter words containing c, a, f, e, i
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
- multifaceted — Having many facets.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- office space — part of a building for business use
- officialized — Simple past tense and past participle of officialize.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pacific time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- pack of lies — false account
- paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
- patent cliff — a potential sharp drop in sales and revenue for a company when one of its patents expires: the looming patent cliffs faced by pharmaceutical firms.
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- piece of ass — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- refractivity — the power to refract.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- sales office — the office or room of the department of a company responsible for selling its goods or services
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).