13-letter words containing f, o, n
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- coniferophyte — (biology) conifer.
- contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
- contrafactual — counterfactual.
- contrafagotto — a contrabassoon
- 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.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
- 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.
- cornification — the process of producing a horn or horny substance
- couch surfing — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- count rumford — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
- counter staff — people who work behind the counter of a bank, post office, etc
- countereffort — an effort responding to, or retaliating against, another effort
- counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
- counterfeiter — made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged: counterfeit dollar bills.
- counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
- counteroffers — Plural form of counteroffer.
- counterproofs — Plural form of counterproof.
- counterreform — a reform which opposes or acts against another reform
- countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
- country fever — malaria.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
- cross oneself — to outline the form of a cross as a Christian religious act by moving the hand from the forehead to the breast and then from one shoulder to the other
- cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- cut-off point — the limit at which something is no longer applicable
- cyclone fence — a heavy-duty, chain-link fence, usually high and often topped with barbed wire
- cycloolefinic — of or like a cycloolefin
- cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
- damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
- dandification — The condition or state of a man who is overly concerned about his clothes and appearance.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
- deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
- deconfliction — The act or process of deconflicting.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- densification — the act of becoming or making more dense
- deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- diffarreation — (historical) A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.