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12-letter words containing f, e, r, a, c

  • channel-surf — to switch TV channels repeatedly using a remote-control device, usually so as to sample brief segments of programs
  • characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
  • chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
  • chicago fire — a three-day fire in Chicago, Ill., in 1871 that largely destroyed the city and took several hundred lives.
  • chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
  • cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
  • city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
  • clayton fern — a tall fern, Osmunda claytoniana, of eastern North America and eastern Asia, having an interruption of growth in the center of some fronds.
  • clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
  • cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
  • cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
  • cock feather — the odd-coloured feather set on the shaft of an arrow at right angles to the nock
  • coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
  • coffee cream — cream for use in coffee; light cream.
  • coffee maker — Also, coffeemaker. an apparatus for brewing coffee; coffeepot.
  • coffee royal — café royale.
  • coffee-maker — a domestic appliance that makes coffee
  • coffeemakers — Plural form of coffeemaker.
  • come forward — If someone comes forward, they offer to do something or to give some information in response to a request for help.
  • comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
  • confederated — Simple past tense and past participle of confederate.
  • confederates — Plural form of confederate.
  • conferential — Of or pertaining to a conference.
  • configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
  • conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
  • conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
  • confraternal — a lay brotherhood devoted to some purpose, especially to religious or charitable service.
  • containerful — As much as a container can hold.
  • content farm — a website that exploits the way search engines retrieve and rank pages by incorporating popular search terms and topics in its content, often with little attention to the originality, appropriateness, or quality of the subject matter, in order to elevate the ranking of its articles in online search results and attract advertisers.
  • copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
  • cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
  • counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
  • countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
  • cracker feed — Cracker feed is the raw materials used in different cracking processes.
  • craft centre — a large shop that sells craftwork
  • craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
  • craftsperson — an artisan
  • crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
  • crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
  • crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
  • csk software — (company)   An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
  • curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
  • cut a figure — to attract attention
  • cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
  • disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
  • disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
  • duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
  • dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
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