12-letter words containing c, a, l, i, f
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- ineffaceable — not effaceable or eradicable; indelible: an ineffaceable impression.
- ineffaceably — not effaceable or eradicable; indelible: an ineffaceable impression.
- infant class — (in England and Wales) a class at infant school for young schoolchildren between the ages of 5 and 7
- infanticidal — the act of killing an infant.
- inflectional — of, relating to, or used in inflection: an inflectional ending.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
- liquefacient — something that liquefies or promotes liquefaction.
- liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- 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)
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- multifaceted — Having many facets.
- multifractal — (mathematics) Describing a system that is fractal in multiple ways.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- nonfictional — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
- nonfinancial — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.
- officialized — Simple past tense and past participle of officialize.
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- optical diff — vdiff
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- pack of lies — false account
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- 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.
- 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
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
- radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
- rail traffic — the vehicles, passengers, or freight that are moving from place to place by railway