12-letter words containing c, u, t, f
- country life — life in the country
- court of law — When you refer to a court of law, you are referring to a legal court, especially when talking about the evidence that might be given in a trial.
- crucifiction — Misspelling of crucifixion.
- cruciformity — being in the shape of a cross; cross-shaped.
- cruelty-free — (of a cosmetic or other product) developed without being tested on animals
- cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
- currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- customs form — a form for customs, concerning the nature, value, destination, etc, of goods being imported or exported
- cut a figure — to attract attention
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- cut fastball — a fastball that breaks somewhat like a curve ball, due to increased pressure from the tip of the middle finger.
- cut-off date — the last date on which it is possible to do something
- cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
- deflocculate — to disperse, forming a colloid or suspension
- difficulties — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effectuation — to bring about; effect.
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- electrofluor — a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factor group — quotient group.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
- floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.