13-letter words containing f, l, t
- built-up roof — a usually flat or slightly sloped roof that is covered with a special material applied in sealed, waterproof layers.
- butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
- butterfly nut — wing nut.
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- 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
- calcification — the process of calcifying or becoming calcified
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
- catch hold of — to take; seize; grasp
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- 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.
- chloroformist — a person who is skilled in the use of or who dispenses or provides chloroform as part of their job
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- city of light — Paris2
- claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
- clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- cloth of gold — cloth woven from silk threads interspersed with gold
- cloth-of-gold — a garden plant, Crocus augustifolius, of the iris family, native to the Crimean mountains, having orange-red flowers.
- cloven-footed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
- coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- 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
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- computer file — file
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- conflictingly — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
- 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.
- contrafactual — counterfactual.
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- 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.
- counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner