9-letter words containing n, f, c
- corn beef — corned beef.
- cornfield — A cornfield is a field in which corn is being grown.
- cornflake — Cornflakes are small flat pieces of maize that are eaten with milk as a breakfast cereal. They are popular in Britain and the United States.
- cornflour — Cornflour is a fine white powder made from maize and is used to make sauces thicker.
- cornforth — Sir John Warcup. 1917–2014, Australian chemist, who shared the 1975 Nobel prize for chemistry with Vladimir Prelog for their work on stereochemistry
- cornified — Converted into horn; horny.
- corniform — shaped like a horn
- 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.
- craftsman — A craftsman is a man who makes things skilfully with his hands.
- craftsmen — a person who practices or is highly skilled in a craft; artisan.
- crane fly — any dipterous fly of the family Tipulidae, having long legs, slender wings, and a narrow body
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- 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.
- 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
- defecting — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- defencing — defense.
- deference — Deference is a polite and respectful attitude towards someone, especially because they have an important position.
- defiances — Plural form of defiance.
- deficient — If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
- den chief — (in the Boy Scouts) a boy scout who supervises a cub scout den in cooperation with a den mother or den father.
- difluence — diffluence.
- disinfect — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- effecting — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- effection — Creation; a doing.
- efference — conveying or conducting away from an organ or part (opposed to afferent).
- efficient — (esp. of a system or machine) Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.
- effluence — the action or process of flowing out; efflux.
- enforcers — Plural form of enforcer.
- enforcing — Present participle of enforce.
- fabricant — a maker or manufacturer.
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- face-nail — to secure with nails driven perpendicular to the surface. Compare toenail (def 4).
- faceplant — (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- factional — of a faction or factions.
- factor in — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factoring — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- facundity — (archaic) eloquence; readiness of speech.
- faineance — Also, faineant [fey-nee-uh nt] /ˈfeɪ ni ənt/ (Show IPA). idle; indolent.
- faineancy — Synonym of faineance.