12-letter words containing e, n, f
- 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.
- chieftainess — a female chieftain
- chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
- chinese leaf — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- clayton fern — a tall fern, Osmunda claytoniana, of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having an interruption of growth in the center of some fronds.
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- closefitting — fitting tightly, esp. in such a way as to show the contours of the body
- clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
- coefficients — Plural form of coefficient.
- coffee beans — the beanlike seeds of the coffee tree, which are roasted and ground to make coffee
- coffee spoon — a small spoon (smaller than a teaspoon) for stirring coffee
- colorfulness — the quality of being colourful
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- comfort zone — a situation or position in which a person feels secure, comfortable, or in control
- conchiferous — (esp of molluscs) having or producing a shell
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- confectioner — A confectioner is a person whose job is making or selling sweets and chocolates.
- confederated — Simple past tense and past participle of confederate.
- confederates — Plural form of confederate.
- conferencier — a lecturer or public speaker
- conferencing — communication between three or more speakers at different locations
- conferential — Of or pertaining to a conference.
- confessional — A confessional is the small room in a church where Christians, especially Roman Catholics, go to confess their sins.
- confessoress — a woman who hears or makes confessions
- confidential — Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- confinements — Plural form of confinement.
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- conformities — Plural form of conformity.
- confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.
- confoundment — The state of being confounded.
- confraternal — a lay brotherhood devoted to some purpose, especially to religious or charitable service.
- confrontment — Confrontation.
- confusedness — The state or quality of being confused.
- confusticate — Slang. to confuse or perplex; bewilder.
- consent form — a form signed by a patient prior to a medical procedure to confirm that he or she agrees to the procedure and is aware of any risks that might be involved
- conspecifics — Plural form of conspecific.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- content farm — a website that exploits the way search engines retrieve and rank pages by incorporating popular search terms and topics in its content, often with little attention to the originality, appropriateness, or quality of the subject matter, in order to elevate the ranking of its articles in online search results and attract advertisers.
- content-free — (jargon) 1. (By analogy with "context-free") Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centred on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and other professional manipulators. See also four-colour glossies. (education) 2. Within British schools the term refers to general-purpose software such as a word processor, a spreadsheet or a program that tests spelling of words supplied by the teacher. This is in contrast to software designed to teach a particular topic, e.g. a plant growth simulation, an interactive periodic table or a program that tests spelling of a predetermined list of words. Content-free software can be more cost-effective as it can be reused for many lessons throughout the syllabus.
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- cost-benefit — denoting or relating to a method of assessing a project that takes into account its costs and its benefits to society as well as the revenue it generates
- council fire — a fire kept burning continually during a council of American Indians.