13-letter words containing n, a, f, t
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
- beneficential — relating to beneficence
- beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
- beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- 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.
- cafe chantant — an intimate cabaret offering sophisticated musical entertainment.
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- calcification — the process of calcifying or becoming calcified
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
- caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
- 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
- carnification — the conversion of tissue into flesh or a fleshlike substance, as of lung tissue into fibrous tissue as a result of pneumonia.
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- chymification — the process of turning into chyme
- citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
- clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
- common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
- common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confarreation — (in ancient Rome) the highest form of marriage, which was marked by the offering of a cake to Jupiter
- confectionary — a place where confections are kept or made
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
- confederative — of confederates or a confederation
- configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- confirmations — Plural form of confirmation.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.