13-letter words containing f, r, e
- buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
- buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- 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
- café coronary — a fatal choking condition brought on when food, dentures, etc. lodge in a person's throat while he or she is eating: it is often misinterpreted as a heart attack
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- calcariferous — having a spur or spurs
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
- candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
- cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
- cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- carving knife — A carving knife is a long sharp knife that is used to cut cooked meat.
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
- centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
- chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
- charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- chef-d'oeuvre — a masterpiece
- chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
- chest freezer — a freezer shaped like a chest with a door that opens by lifting up
- chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
- chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
- chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
- cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
- circular file — a wastebasket
- circumference — The circumference of a circle, place, or round object is the distance around its edge.
- circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.