12-letter words containing f, i, l
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- closefitting — fitting tightly, esp. in such a way as to show the contours of the body
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- coat of mail — a protective garment made of linked metal rings (mail) or of overlapping metal plates; hauberk
- color filter — colored glass, dyed gelatin, etc., used to produce certain color or light effects, as in photography
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- come to life — If something or someone comes to life, they become active.
- comfortingly — In a comforting manner.
- comic relief — a comic interlude, or comic element, in a tragedy
- complexified — Simple past tense and past participle of complexify.
- complexifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complexify.
- conferential — Of or pertaining to a conference.
- confessional — A confessional is the small room in a church where Christians, especially Roman Catholics, go to confess their sins.
- confidential — Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
- 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.
- conflictions — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- conformingly — In a way that conforms.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- cooking film — a plastic film used for wrapping or covering food
- cooking foil — a thin sheet of aluminium used for wrapping or covering food
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- council fire — a fire kept burning continually during a council of American Indians.
- council flat — a flat built or owned by a local council
- counterfoils — Plural form of counterfoil.
- country life — life in the country
- craniofacial — relating to both the cranium and the face
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cyclic shift — a transfer of digits from one end of a machine word to the other, retaining the same order in both places.
- cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
- damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- decalcifying — Present participle of decalcify.
- declassified — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
- declassifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declassify.
- deconflicted — Simple past tense and past participle of deconflict.
- defederalize — to shift the functions or powers of (an agency, service, etc.) from the jurisdiction of the federal government to that of state or local government: to defederalize construction loans.
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- definitional — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- definitively — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.