9-letter words containing c, o, f, u
- curb roof — a roof having two or more slopes on each side of the ridge
- curviform — having a curved shape
- defocused — Simple past tense and past participle of defocus.
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- eruciform — Shaped like a caterpillar.
- fabaceous — belonging to the Fabaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Leguminosae.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- factotums — (obsolete) Plural form of factotum.
- fagaceous — belonging to the Fagaceae, the beech family of plants.
- feracious — Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful.
- ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- filaceous — composed of threads
- floccular — of or relating to the flocculus of the cerebellum
- floccules — Plural form of floccule.
- flocculus — floccule.
- floscular — Flosculous.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- fluoresce — to exhibit fluorescence.
- fluorotic — Relating to fluorosis.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- focusings — Plural form of focusing.
- focusless — Lacking focus.
- focussing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- force cup — plunger (def 3).
- force-out — a put-out of a base runner on a force play.
- forcefull — Archaic form of forceful.
- forecourt — Tennis. the part of either half of a tennis court that lies between the net and the line that marks the inbounds limit of a service. Compare backcourt (def 1).
- formulaic — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fourscore — four times twenty; eighty.
- fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- frictious — (rare) Of, related to, or caused by friction.
- frouncing — Present participle of frounce.
- fructidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the twelfth month of the year, extending from August 18 to September 16.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- fructuous — productive; fertile; profitable: a fructuous region, rich in natural resources.
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- fruticous — (botany) fruticose.
- fugacious — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- functions — Plural form of function.
- furacious — given to stealing; thievish
- furcation — forked; branching.
- golf club — any of various long-handled clubs with wooden or metal heads, for hitting the ball in golf. Compare iron (def 5), wood1 (def 8).
- musciform — (botany) Having the appearance or form of a moss.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- of colour — People of colour are people who belong to a race with dark skins.