13-letter words containing f, a, l
- casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
- catch hold of — to take; seize; grasp
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
- chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
- charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- ciprofloxacin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used against Gram-negative bacteria. It is effective against anthrax
- circular file — a wastebasket
- claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
- class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
- class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
- classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
- cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
- 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
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confessionals — Plural form of confessional.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- contrafactual — counterfactual.
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
- 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.
- corollifloral — relating to, or belonging to, a subclass of plants known as Corolliflorae, which have gamopetalous corolla and stamens attached to the corolla
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.