16-letter words containing f, r, e
- chamber of trade — a national organization representing local chambers of commerce
- chemical warfare — warfare in which chemicals other than explosives are used as weapons, esp warfare using asphyxiating or nerve gases, poisons, defoliants, etc
- chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
- chevaux-de-frise — plural of cheval-de-frise.
- chilean firebush — South American shrub with scarlet flowers
- chloride of lime — a white powder with the approximate formula CaOCl2, obtained by treating slaked lime with chlorine and used for disinfecting and bleaching
- cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
- chromic fluoride — a green, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, CrF 3 ⋅4H 2 O or CrF 3 ⋅9H 2 O: used chiefly in printing and dyeing woolens.
- church suffering — the souls in purgatory.
- city of aberdeen — a council area in NE Scotland, established in 1996. Pop: 206 600 (2003 est). Area: 186 sq km (72 sq miles)
- clarified butter — butter with the water and milk solids removed, used for cooking at high temperatures without burning
- clermont-ferrand — a city in S central France: capital of Puy-de-Dôme department; industrial centre. Pop: 140 957 (2011)
- cock-of-the-rock — either of two tropical South American birds, Rupicola rupicola or R. peruviana, having an erectile crest and (in the male) a brilliant red or orange plumage: family Cotingidae (cotingas)
- code of practice — A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular profession should behave.
- collective fruit — multiple fruit
- colles' fracture — a fracture of the radius just above the wrist, with backward and outward displacement of the hand
- come from behind — sport: win from a disadvantaged position
- come full circle — to arrive back at one's starting point
- comedy of errors — an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.
- complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
- confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
- confederationist — A supporter of confederation.
- conference table — a large table, often rectangular, around which a number of people may be seated, as when holding a conference
- confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
- confused elderly — old and no longer having mental abilities sufficient for independent living
- congo free state — a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- contour feathers — feathers that form the surface plumage of a bird and determine the outer contour, including the wing and tail feathers
- control freakery — an obsessive need to be in control of what is happening
- cooperative farm — a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions (farmers' cooperatives)
- coreferentiality — (of two words or phrases) having reference to the same person or thing.
- corkscrew flower — snailflower.
- corned beef hash — a dish consisting of corned beef chopped and mixed together with mashed potatoes and various other ingredients, then fried
- correction fluid — a fluid, usually white, that can be painted over a mistake in writing or typing so that the correct form can be written or typed on top
- council of trent — the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation
- counterfactually — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
- course of action — a way of proceeding
- court of appeals — A Court of Appeals is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- court of justice — a legal court
- court of session — the supreme civil court in Scotland
- cracked fraction — A cracked fraction is a petroleum fraction (= a portion separated according to a physical property) that has been broken down from a fraction with larger molecules.
- craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
- cream of coconut — coconut cream (def 1).
- cream puff paste — paste made with eggs, water or milk, butter, and flour, used in making éclairs, profiteroles, and other kinds of puffs.
- cream-of-coconut — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
- creature comfort — anything providing bodily comfort, as food, clothing, or shelter
- creature feature — a horror film featuring a monster
- crime of passion — a crime, often a murder, committed from passion, esp sexual passion
- criminal offence — an action which is punishable under the law
- croydon facelift — the tightening effect on the skin of a woman's face caused by securing the hair at the back of the head in a tight ponytail