9-letter words containing f, u, c
- configure — If you configure a piece of computer equipment, you set it up so that it is ready for use.
- confiseur — a confectioner
- confiture — a confection, preserve of fruit, etc
- confluent — flowing together or merging
- confluxes — Plural form of conflux.
- confounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confound.
- confucian — of or relating to the doctrines of Confucius
- confucius — Chinese name Kong Zi or K'ung Fu-tse. 551–479 bc, Chinese philosopher and teacher of ethics (see Confucianism). His doctrines were compiled after his death under the title The Analects of Confucius
- confuddle — (transitive) To thoroughly confuse.
- confusing — Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- confuting — Present participle of confute.
- confuzzle — (neologism, cute, childish) The state of confusion and/or being puzzled.
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- cornflour — Cornflour is a fine white powder made from maize and is used to make sauces thicker.
- count for — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- count off — to separate into equal divisions by counting
- countrify — to make countrified.
- countryfy — Alternative spelling of countrify.
- cram-full — stuffed full
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- crossruff — the alternate trumping of each other's leads by two partners, or by declarer and dummy
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crucifers — Plural form of crucifer.
- crucified — Simple past tense and past participle of crucify.
- crucifier — One who crucifies.
- crucifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crucify.
- cruciform — A cruciform building or object is shaped like a cross.
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- cuff link — one of a pair of linked buttons, used to join the buttonholes on the cuffs of a shirt
- cufflinks — one of a pair of linked ornamental buttons or buttonlike devices for fastening a shirt cuff.
- cult film — a film that a certain group of people admire very much
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cup final — the final of any cup competition
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- curb roof — a roof having two or more slopes on each side of the ridge
- curviform — having a curved shape
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- defocused — Simple past tense and past participle of defocus.
- deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
- difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- difluence — diffluence.
- doughface — a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- dulcified — Sweetened; mollified.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- effectual — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effluence — the action or process of flowing out; efflux.
- eruciform — Shaped like a caterpillar.
- fabaceous — belonging to the Fabaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Leguminosae.