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13-letter words containing r, f, c

  • contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
  • contrafactual — counterfactual.
  • contrafagotto — a contrabassoon
  • control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
  • copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
  • coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
  • coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • cornification — the process of producing a horn or horny substance
  • corollifloral — relating to, or belonging to, a subclass of plants known as Corolliflorae, which have gamopetalous corolla and stamens attached to the corolla
  • corrie-fisted — left-handed
  • cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
  • couch surfing — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • count rumford — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
  • counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
  • counter staff — people who work behind the counter of a bank, post office, etc
  • countereffort — an effort responding to, or retaliating against, another effort
  • counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
  • counterfeiter — made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged: counterfeit dollar bills.
  • counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
  • counteroffers — Plural form of counteroffer.
  • counterproofs — Plural form of counterproof.
  • counterreform — a reform which opposes or acts against another reform
  • countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
  • country fever — malaria.
  • covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
  • crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
  • crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
  • craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
  • creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
  • creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
  • crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
  • crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
  • crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
  • cross oneself — to outline the form of a cross as a Christian religious act by moving the hand from the forehead to the breast and then from one shoulder to the other
  • cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
  • cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
  • crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
  • crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
  • cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
  • culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
  • curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
  • customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
  • cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
  • cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
  • dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • defervescence — the abatement of a fever
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