11-letter words containing f, i, r, n
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
- centrifuged — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- centrifuges — Plural form of centrifuge.
- chicken-fry — to dip (meat, vegetables, etc.) in batter and fry, usually in deep fat: chicken-fried steak.
- chieftainry — the area governed by a chieftain
- chiffoniers — Plural form of chiffonier.
- chiffonnier — a high chest of drawers or bureau, often having a mirror on top.
- chondrified — Simple past tense and past participle of chondrify.
- clarificant — any substance for clarifying a liquid.
- cliffhanger — A cliffhanger is a situation or part of a play or film that is very exciting or frightening because you are left for a long time not knowing what will happen next.
- coffee ring — a coffeecake shaped like a ring, plain or fruited, often with a topping of raisins, ground nuts, and icing.
- columniform — Having the form of a column.
- come in for — If someone or something comes in for criticism or blame, they receive it.
- configurate — to shape or fashion
- configuring — Present participle of configure.
- confirmable — Capable of being checked, verifiable.
- confirmance — (obsolete) confirmation.
- confirmator — a confirmer
- confirmedly — In a manner that is confirmed; definitely, as has been demonstrated.
- confirmings — confirmations
- confiscator — to seize as forfeited to the public domain; appropriate, by way of penalty, for public use.
- conflictory — 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.
- conformists — Plural form of conformist.
- confronting — Present participle of confront.
- corn muffin — a muffin, often shaped like a cupcake, made from cornmeal.
- corniferous — producing or containing chert
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- counterfire — fire that is intended to destroy enemy weapons
- counterfoil — A counterfoil is the part of a cheque, ticket, or other document that you keep when you give the other part to someone else.
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- countryfied — countrified
- county fair — a competitive exhibition of farm products, livestock, etc., often held annually in the same place in the county.
- craft knife — a knife used for paper crafts, etc, that has a sharp replaceable blade
- craft union — a labour organization membership of which is restricted to workers in a specified trade or craft
- crucifixion — Crucifixion is a way of killing people which was common in the Roman Empire, in which they were tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- cyberfriend — A friend with whom one communicates only through the Internet or cyberspace.
- cypriniform — Any of many ray-finned fish, of the order Cypriniformes, such as the carps, minnows and loaches.
- dead firing — firing of a furnace or boiler at less than normal operating temperature in order to maintain conditions desirable during a period of idleness.
- debriefings — Plural form of debriefing.
- deferential — Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful towards someone else.
- defibrinate — to divest of fibrin or the protein formed in blood during clotting
- defloration — the act of deflowering
- deflowering — Present participle of deflower.
- deforesting — Present participle of deforest.
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
- denitrified — Simple past tense and past participle of denitrify.
- denitrifier — an agent, often bacterial, which denitrifies
- diefenbaker — John George, 1895–1979, prime minister of Canada 1957–63.
- differences — Plural form of difference.
- differentia — the character or attribute by which one species is distinguished from all others of the same genus.