13-letter words containing f, a, i, n
- ciprofloxacin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used against Gram-negative bacteria. It is effective against anthrax
- citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
- clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- cliff-hanging — of, relating to, or characteristic of a cliff-hanger: a cliff-hanging vote of 20–19.
- coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confarreation — (in ancient Rome) the highest form of marriage, which was marked by the offering of a cake to Jupiter
- confectionary — a place where confections are kept or made
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
- confederative — of confederates or a confederation
- confessionals — Plural form of confessional.
- confessionary — of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.
- configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- confirmations — Plural form of confirmation.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- conformations — Plural form of conformation.
- confraternity — a group of men united for some particular purpose, esp Christian laymen organized for religious or charitable service; brotherhood
- confrontation — A confrontation is a dispute, fight, or battle between two groups of people.
- confrontative — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- cornification — the process of producing a horn or horny substance
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
- cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
- dandification — The condition or state of a man who is overly concerned about his clothes and appearance.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- decaffeinated — Decaffeinated coffee has had most of the caffeine removed from it.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.