13-letter words containing l, c, f
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- 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.
- chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
- child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
- chloroformist — a person who is skilled in the use of or who dispenses or provides chloroform as part of their job
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- ciprofloxacin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used against Gram-negative bacteria. It is effective against anthrax
- circular file — a wastebasket
- circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
- circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
- city of light — Paris2
- civil defence — Civil defence is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
- class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
- class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
- classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
- cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
- cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
- cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
- cliff-hanging — of, relating to, or characteristic of a cliff-hanger: a cliff-hanging vote of 20–19.
- climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
- climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- cloth of gold — cloth woven from silk threads interspersed with gold
- cloth-of-gold — a garden plant, Crocus augustifolius, of the iris family, native to the Crimean mountains, having orange-red flowers.
- cloven-footed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- cloven-hoofed — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
- coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
- columelliform — like a columella.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.