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13-letter words containing o, f

  • cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
  • 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
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • carnification — the conversion of tissue into flesh or a fleshlike substance, as of lung tissue into fibrous tissue as a result of pneumonia.
  • carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
  • carry too far — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • catch hold of — to take; seize; grasp
  • catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cause offence — If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
  • celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
  • certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
  • certificatory — Serving to certify something.
  • chef-d'oeuvre — a masterpiece
  • chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
  • 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
  • church of god — any of numerous Protestant denominations that stress personal conversion, sanctification, the imminent return of Jesus Christ, baptism by immersion, and, among some, speaking in tongues.
  • chylification — the process of turning into chyle
  • chymification — the process of turning into chyme
  • cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
  • ciprofloxacin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used against Gram-negative bacteria. It is effective against anthrax
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • 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.
  • city of david — Jerusalem. II Sam. 5:6–7.
  • city of light — Paris2
  • claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
  • clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
  • clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
  • cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
  • 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.
  • coffin corner — any of the corners of a football field formed by a goal line and side line: punts are sometimes directed to a coffin corner so that the ball will go out of bounds near the opponent's goal line
  • coffin dodger — an old person
  • 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.
  • come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
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