13-letter words containing fi
- carnification — the conversion of tissue into flesh or a fleshlike substance, as of lung tissue into fibrous tissue as a result of pneumonia.
- centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
- chief-officer — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
- chip graffiti — microchip art
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- chymification — the process of turning into chyme
- circular file — a wastebasket
- clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
- classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
- climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
- 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.
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
- 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
- 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
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- computer file — file
- confidingness — The state or quality of being confiding.
- configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- confirmations — Plural form of confirmation.
- confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- 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
- corrie-fisted — left-handed
- couch surfing — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
- cowboy outfit — an outfit consisting of a cowboy hat, fringed waistcoat, trousers, scarf etc, worn either by children or adults
- crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
- dandification — The condition or state of a man who is overly concerned about his clothes and appearance.
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.