9-letter words containing f, a, c, e
- clockface — Alternative spelling of clock face.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- coal fire — a mass of burning coal used esp in a hearth to heat a room
- coalfaces — Plural form of coalface.
- coalfield — A coalfield is a region where there is coal under the ground.
- code flag — a flag forming part of a signal code.
- cofeature — a joint feature
- cofferdam — a watertight structure, usually of sheet piling, that encloses an area under water, pumped dry to enable construction work to be carried out. Below a certain depth a caisson is required
- cofinance — to be one of two or more organizations that provide finance for (an enterprise)
- confabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of confab.
- conferral — a conferring of an honor, degree, or favor; bestowal
- confervae — Plural form of conferva.
- conflated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflate.
- conflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conflate.
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- craftiest — Superlative form of crafty.
- craftless — without craft or cunning
- craftsmen — a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.
- crane fly — any dipterous fly of the family Tipulidae, having long legs, slender wings, and a narrow body
- cream off — To cream off part of a group of people means to take them away and treat them in a special way, because they are better than the others.
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- deacidify — to render (a substance) less acidic
- decalcify — to remove calcium or lime from (bones, teeth, etc)
- defaecate — Alt form defecate.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- defecated — Simple past tense and past participle of defecate.
- defecates — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- disaffect — to alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal: The dictator's policies had soon disaffected the people.
- dock leaf — the typically broad leaf of any of various temperate weedy plants of the polygonaceous genus Rumex, having greenish or reddish flowers
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- ecofallow — a method of farming that diminishes weeds and conserves water by rotating crops and reducing or eliminating tillage.
- ecofreaks — Plural form of ecofreak.
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- edificial — a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
- effectual — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- fabaceous — belonging to the Fabaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Leguminosae.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- face card — the king, queen, or jack of playing cards.
- face cord — a measure of wood cut for fuel, as arranged in a pile 8 feet wide, 4 feet high, and with pieces 12 to 18 inches in length
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- face gear — a disklike gear having teeth cut on the face more or less radially and engaging with a spur or helical pinion, the axis of which is at right angles to it.
- face mask — Sports. the protective equipment, usually made of steel or plastic, that guards the face, as the steel cage worn by a baseball catcher or the molded plastic covering worn by a hockey goalkeeper.
- face pack — A face pack is a thick substance which you spread on your face, allow to dry for a short time, and then remove, in order to clean your skin thoroughly.
- face time — time spent speaking or meeting with one or more people face to face, in contrast to phone conversations or other means of communication: Is he available for a couple of hours of face time?
- face-ache — neuralgia
- face-lift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.