11-letter words containing f, e, c
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
- centrifuged — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- centrifuges — Plural form of centrifuge.
- cerebriform — resembling the brain in texture or structure
- certifiable — If you describe someone as certifiable, you think that their behaviour is extremely unreasonable or foolish.
- certifiably — capable of being certified.
- certificate — A certificate is an official document stating that particular facts are true.
- chaffinches — Plural form of chaffinch.
- chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
- change face — to rotate the telescope of a surveying instrument through 180° horizontally and vertically, taking a second sighting of the same object in order to reduce error
- change feet — to put on different shoes, boots, etc
- changefully — In a changeful manner.
- chantefable — (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.
- chauffeured — driven by a chauffeur
- cheerfuller — Comparative form of cheerful.
- cheesed off — If you are cheesed off, you are annoyed, bored, or disappointed.
- cheesed-off — disgusted; fed up (usually followed by off).
- cheliferous — bearing chelae
- chemoreflex — a reflex caused by a chemical stimulus.
- chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
- chickenfeed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chickenfeed.
- chief rabbi — the chief religious minister of a national Jewish community
- chieftaincy — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
- chiffoniers — Plural form of chiffonier.
- chiffonnier — a high chest of drawers or bureau, often having a mirror on top.
- chifforobes — Plural form of chifforobe.
- chondrified — Simple past tense and past participle of chondrify.
- chyliferous — containing chyle
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- cinefaction — (obsolete, rare) cineration; reduction to ashes.
- cinquefoils — Plural form of cinquefoil.
- circumflect — to emphasize with a circumflex accent
- circumfused — Simple past tense and past participle of circumfuse.
- circumfuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumfuse.
- city father — You can refer to a member of a city council or city's government as a city father.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- classifieds — The classifieds are the same as classified ad.
- classifiers — Plural form of classifier.
- cliff brake — any of several common ferns of the genus Pellaea, usually growing in pockets of thin soil on rocks.
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- closefisted — stingy
- cloven foot — a foot divided by a cleft, as in the ox, deer, and sheep
- cloven hoof — Animals that have cloven hooves have feet that are divided into two parts. Cows, sheep, and goats have cloven hooves.
- club-footed — a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
- cluster fly — a dipterous fly, Pollenia rudis, that tends to gather in large numbers in attics in the autumn: family Calliphoridae. The larvae are parasitic in earthworms
- coarse fish — a freshwater fish that is not a member of the salmon family
- coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
- cocciferous — (of a plant) bearing berries
- cockchafers — Plural form of cockchafer.