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13-letter words containing f, c

  • circumference — The circumference of a circle, place, or round object is the distance around its edge.
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • 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.
  • city of david — Jerusalem. II Sam. 5:6–7.
  • city of light — Paris2
  • civil defence — Civil defence is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
  • civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
  • 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 dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
  • cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
  • cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
  • cliff-hanging — of, relating to, or characteristic of a cliff-hanger: a cliff-hanging vote of 20–19.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • cloth of gold — cloth woven from silk threads interspersed with gold
  • cloth-of-gold — a garden plant, Crocus augustifolius, of the iris family, native to the Crimean mountains, having orange-red flowers.
  • cloven-footed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
  • cloven-hoofed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
  • coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
  • coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
  • coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
  • coffin corner — any of the corners of a football field formed by a goal line and side line: punts are sometimes directed to a coffin corner so that the ball will go out of bounds near the opponent's goal line
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
  • colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
  • columelliform — like a columella.
  • come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • 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.
  • comme il faut — correct or correctly
  • commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
  • common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
  • common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
  • compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
  • computer file — file
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
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