13-letter words containing y, f
- by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
- café coronary — a fatal choking condition brought on when food, dentures, etc. lodge in a person's throat while he or she is eating: it is often misinterpreted as a heart attack
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
- 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.
- cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
- casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- chymification — the process of turning into chyme
- city of david — Jerusalem. II Sam. 5:6–7.
- city of light — Paris2
- clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confectionary — a place where confections are kept or made
- confectionery — Confectionery is sweets and chocolates.
- confessionary — of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.
- conflictingly — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
- confoundingly — in a confounding manner
- confraternity — a group of men united for some particular purpose, esp Christian laymen organized for religious or charitable service; brotherhood
- coniferophyte — (biology) conifer.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
- country fever — malaria.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- cowboy outfit — an outfit consisting of a cowboy hat, fringed waistcoat, trousers, scarf etc, worn either by children or adults
- cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
- cyclone fence — a heavy-duty, chain-link fence, usually high and often topped with barbed wire
- cycloolefinic — of or like a cycloolefin
- 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
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- day after day — If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
- defectibility — the ability to become defectible
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- defenselessly — In a defenseless manner.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- defervescency — Alternative form of defervescence.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- dehydrofreeze — to subject (food) to partial dehydration and quick-freezing.