13-letter words containing f, e, i
- bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- calcariferous — having a spur or spurs
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
- cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
- centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
- chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
- chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
- chief justice — A Chief Justice is the most important judge of a court of law, especially a supreme court.
- chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
- circular file — a wastebasket
- 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.
- 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
- 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-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
- climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt