9-letter words containing c, f, l
- cartonful — As much as a carton will hold.
- case file — a file kept on a person who is involved in a medical, legal, or social work investigation
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- cauldrife — susceptible to cold; chilly
- caulfield — Patrick (Joseph). 1936–2005, British painter and printmaker
- cauliform — resembling or similar to a caulis
- chainfall — a hand-powered hoist consisting of chains working on the pulley principle, used to lift and manoeuvre large heavy objects
- chairlift — a series of chairs suspended from a power-driven cable for conveying people, esp skiers, up a mountain
- chalkface — the work or art of teaching in a school, esp classroom teaching as distinct from organizational responsibilities (esp in the phrase at the chalkface)
- chanceful — eventful
- changeful — often changing; inconstant; variable
- chargeful — onerous; expensive
- cheerfull — Archaic form of cheerful.
- cheliform — shaped like a chela; pincer-like
- chiefless — having no ruler or leader
- chiefling — a minor chief
- childfree — having no children; childless, especially by choice.
- chockfull — Alternative form of chock full.
- choiceful — having an inability to make decisive choices
- cine film — photographic film, wound on a spool, usually 8, 16, or 35 millimetres wide, up to several hundred metres long, and having one or two lines of sprocket holes along its length enabling it to be used in a cine camera
- clafoutis — a French baked pudding
- clam-flat — a level stretch of mud, exposed by the tide, where clams burrow.
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- clarifier — A clarifier is a vessel or stage in which remaining suspended solids are separated from a liquid to leave a clear overflow.
- clarifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clarify.
- classific — relating to classification
- claviform — clavate
- claw foot — a foot with claws.
- clear off — If you tell someone to clear off, you are telling them rather rudely to go away.
- cleft lip — a congenital split in the upper lip, often associated with a cleft palate
- cliffhang — (of a serial or film) to end on a note of suspense
- clifflike — resembling a cliff
- cliffside — The side of a cliff.
- clingfilm — Clingfilm is a thin, clear, stretchy plastic that you use to cover food in order to keep it fresh.
- clingfish — any small marine teleost fish of the family Gobiesocidae, having a flattened elongated body with a sucking disc beneath the head for clinging to rocks, etc
- clock off — When you clock off at work, you leave work or put a special card into a device to show what time you left.
- clockface — Alternative spelling of clock face.
- close off — To close something off means to separate it from other things or people so that they cannot go there.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- club foot — If someone has a club foot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- club-foot — a knoblike foot formed from the end of a cabriole leg as a continuation of its lines: less flat than a pad foot but otherwise similar.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- coal fire — a mass of burning coal used esp in a hearth to heat a room
- coalfaces — Plural form of coalface.
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- cocklofts — Plural form of cockloft.
- code flag — a flag forming part of a signal code.
- cold feet — loss or lack of courage or confidence