8-letter words containing f, e, c
- chatfest — (informal) A talkfest.
- chauffer — a small portable heater or stove
- chearful — Archaic spelling of cheerful.
- checkoff — the procedure whereby an employer pays the employee's union dues or other fees straight from his or her salary
- cheekful — the quantity that can be held in or cover a cheek
- cheerful — Someone who is cheerful is happy and shows this in their behaviour.
- chelifer — Book-scorpion.
- chestful — Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- chiefery — the responsibility and lands belonging to an Irish chief
- chiefess — a chief who is female
- chiefest — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- chinfest — gabfest; bull session; rap session.
- citified — having the customs, manners, or dress of city people
- cityfied — made into a city.
- clear of — If something or someone is a certain amount clear of a competitor, they are that amount ahead of them in a competition or race.
- clefting — (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
- clip-fed — (of an automatic firearm) loaded from a cartridge clip
- clubface — the face of a golf club
- clubfeet — Plural form of clubfoot.
- coalface — In a coal mine, the coalface is the part where the coal is being cut out of the rock.
- codified — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- codifier — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- codifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of codify.
- coeffect — a secondary effect
- coffered — decorated with coffers
- coffined — Simple past tense and past participle of coffin.
- coiffeur — a hairdresser
- coiffure — A person's coiffure is their hairstyle.
- coinfect — to infect (a person or animal) at the same time as another infection
- come for — If people such as soldiers or police come for you, they come to find you, usually in order to harm you or take you away, for example to prison.
- come off — If something comes off, it is successful or effective.
- comfiest — comfortable.
- cone off — to close (one carriageway of a motorway) by placing warning cones across it
- confects — Plural form of confect.
- conferee — a person who takes part in a conference
- conferva — any of various threadlike green algae, esp any of the genus Tribonema, typically occurring in fresh water
- confesse — Obsolete spelling of confess.
- confetti — Confetti is small pieces of coloured paper that people throw over the bride and bridegroom at a wedding.
- confetto — a sweetmeat
- confided — Simple past tense and past participle of confide.
- confider — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confides — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- confined — If something is confined to a particular place, it exists only in that place. If it is confined to a particular group, only members of that group have it.
- confinee — a person held in confinement.
- confiner — One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- confines — limits; boundaries
- confirme — Obsolete spelling of confirm.
- confixed — Simple past tense and past participle of confix.
- conflate — If you conflate two or more descriptions or ideas, or if they conflate, you combine them in order to produce a single one.