9-letter words containing n, f, c
- fivepence — A monetary amount of five pence.
- flagrance — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flagrancy — shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: a flagrant error.
- flamencos — Plural form of flamenco.
- flenching — Present participle of flench.
- fletching — the feathers on an arrow, which stabilize it during flight.
- flinching — Present participle of flinch.
- flintlock — an outmoded gunlock in which a piece of flint striking against steel produces sparks that ignite the priming.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- fluctuant — fluctuating; varying; unstable.
- flyscreen — A screen attached to the front of a motorcycle, designed to prevent insects from flying into the rider.
- focusings — Plural form of focusing.
- focussing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- forcement — (obsolete) The act of forcing; compulsion.
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- forensics — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forfochen — exhausted
- formicant — (medicine,obsolete) Of the pulse: weak and rapid.
- fornicate — to commit fornication.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fractions — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fragrance — the quality of being fragrant; a sweet or pleasing scent.
- fragrancy — fragrance (def 1).
- francesca — Piero della [pee-air-oh del-uh;; Italian pye-raw del-lah] /piˈɛər oʊ ˈdɛl ə;; Italian ˈpyɛ rɔ ˈdɛl lɑ/ (Show IPA), (Piero dei Franceschi) c1420–92, Italian painter.
- franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francis i — 1494–1547, king of France 1515–47.
- francisco — a male given name, Spanish form of Francis.
- francises — a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “Frenchman.”.
- francolin — any of numerous Eurasian and African partridges of the genus Francolinus, having sharply spurred legs.
- franconia — a medieval duchy in Germany, largely in the valley of the Main River.
- franticly — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- fratching — a quarrel; argument; dispute.
- freckling — Present participle of freckle.
- freelance — Also, freelancer. a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
- frenchify — to make (something or someone) resemble the French, as in manners, customs, or dress: to Frenchify the spelling of one's name.
- frenching — of, relating to, or characteristic of France, its inhabitants, or their language, culture, etc.: French cooking.
- frenchman — a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- frenzical — (obsolete) frantic.
- frequence — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- frescoing — Present participle of fresco.
- frication — an audible, constrained rush of air accompanying and characteristic of fricatives.
- frictions — Plural form of friction.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)