12-letter words containing c, o, f, e, s
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forrest city — a city in E Arkansas.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- fresco secco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- frondescence — the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- good offices — Someone's good offices are the help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- in course of — in the process of
- in excess of — more than
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- kick oneself — regret sth
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- non-specific — Non-specific medical conditions or symptoms have more than one possible cause.