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12-letter words containing f, o, r, c

  • coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
  • corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
  • cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
  • cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
  • couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
  • council fire — a fire kept burning continually during a council of American Indians.
  • counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
  • counterbluff — a bluff made in opposition to another bluff
  • counterfeits — Plural form of counterfeit.
  • counterfoils — Plural form of counterfoil.
  • counterforce — a force that acts in opposition to another force
  • counterforts — Plural form of counterfort.
  • counteroffer — A counteroffer is an offer that someone makes, for example, for a house or business, in response to an offer by another person or group.
  • counterproof — a reverse impression of a newly printed proof of an engraving made by laying it while wet upon plain paper and passing it through the press
  • countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
  • country folk — people who live in the country
  • country life — life in the country
  • courier firm — a firm that provides special delivery services
  • court of law — When you refer to a court of law, you are referring to a legal court, especially when talking about the evidence that might be given in a trial.
  • coxless four — a boat for four oarsman and no cox
  • craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
  • craftsperson — an artisan
  • craniofacial — relating to both the cranium and the face
  • cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
  • crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
  • crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
  • crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
  • crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
  • crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
  • crucifiction — Misspelling of crucifixion.
  • crucifixions — Plural form of crucifixion.
  • cruciformity — being in the shape of a cross; cross-shaped.
  • crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
  • csk software — (company)   An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
  • cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
  • cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
  • cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
  • currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
  • curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
  • curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
  • customs form — a form for customs, concerning the nature, value, destination, etc, of goods being imported or exported
  • cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
  • cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
  • dancing frog — (programming, humour)   A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
  • deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
  • discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
  • discomforted — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • discomforter — One who causes discomfort.
  • disconfirmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disconfirm.
  • drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
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