12-letter words containing c, i, f
- brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cafe au lait — coffee with milk
- cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
- cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
- calorie-free — containing no calories
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- campo formio — a village in NE Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: scene of the signing of a treaty in 1797 that ended the war between revolutionary France and Austria
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
- caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
- carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
- carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
- carrier-free — (of a radioactive isotope) capable of functioning as a tracer without the use of a carrier.
- carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
- cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
- casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- central-fire — center-fire.
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
- certificates — Plural form of certificate.
- chaetiferous — having bristles
- chafing dish — a vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table
- chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chicago fire — a three-day fire in Chicago, Ill., in 1871 that largely destroyed the city and took several hundred lives.
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- chief priest — the highest ranking among a number of priests
- chieftainess — a female chieftain
- chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
- childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
- chill factor — windchill factor
- chinese leaf — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
- chlorpyrifos — a broad-spectrum insecticide, C 9 H 11 Cl 3 NO 3 PS, used on lawns and ornamental plants.
- chromiferous — Containing, or yielding chromium.
- 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.
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
- circumflexes — Plural form of circumflex.
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumfluous — flowing all around
- circumfusile — able to be diffused or poured around
- circumfusing — Present participle of circumfuse.
- circumfusion — to pour around; diffuse.