13-letter words containing f, i, e, l
- bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
- 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
- circular file — a wastebasket
- 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
- 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
- coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
- 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.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- computer file — file
- confessionals — Plural form of confessional.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
- coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cycloolefinic — of or like a cycloolefin