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13-letter words containing f, e

  • channel ferry — a ship that shuttles across the English Channel between the UK and the continent
  • chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
  • charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
  • chef-d'oeuvre — a masterpiece
  • chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
  • chest freezer — a freezer shaped like a chest with a door that opens by lifting up
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • chicken-fried — (of meats, esp steak) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
  • chief justice — A Chief Justice is the most important judge of a court of law, especially a supreme court.
  • chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
  • chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
  • church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
  • 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
  • circular file — a wastebasket
  • circumference — The circumference of a circle, place, or round object is the distance around its edge.
  • circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • civil defence — Civil defence is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
  • civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
  • claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
  • claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
  • class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
  • class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
  • classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
  • cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
  • cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
  • comme il faut — correct or correctly
  • commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
  • common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
  • compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
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