10-letter words containing a, f, e, r, m
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event
- full-cream — denoting or made with whole unskimmed milk
- half frame — a photograph taking up half the normal area of a frame on a particular film, taken esp on 35-millimetre film
- half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- hammerfest — a seaport in N Norway: the northernmost town in Europe.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- infirmarer — the infirmarian of a mediaeval monastery
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- interframe — (signal processing) A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.
- intraframe — (signal processing) A video frame which does not depend on any other frame for rendering, but simply presents fixed image. Usually subject to spatial compression.
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
- lake frome — a shallow salt lake in NE South Australia: intermittently filled with water. Length: 100 km (60 miles). Width: 48 km (30 miles)
- leaf miner — any of the larvae of any of numerous insects, as moths of the family Gracilariidae, that live in and feed on the parenchyma of leaves.
- lifestream — a record of all of one's online content and social interactions, presented chronologically on a single website: I just added Twitter to my lifestream.
- macfarlane — an overcoat with an attached cape and two slits in front near the waist.
- magnifiers — Plural form of magnifier.
- main-force — pertaining to regular military units with standard uniforms and equipment.
- mainframes — Plural form of mainframe.
- make after — to set off in pursuit of; chase
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- malleiform — having the shape of a hammer
- manfredini — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1684–1748, Italian composer.
- manifester — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.
- marouflage — a method of attaching a canvas to a wall through adhesion, accomplished by coating the surface with white lead mixed with oil.
- marsh fern — a fern, Thelypteris palustris, having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- misfeature — a distorted feature.
- mixed farm — a farm which combines arable and livestock farming
- montferrat — a historic region in NW Italy, in the Piedmont, S of the Po River.
- mutessarif — an administrator or governor of a sanjak or province in the former Ottoman Empire
- name after — give the same name as
- off camera — If you do something or if something happens off camera, you do it or it happens when not being filmed.
- off stream — (of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc) shut down or not in production
- off-camera — occurring as part of a film or program but outside the range of the motion-picture or television camera: the off-camera shouts of a mob.
- open frame — a frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or a spare.
- oriflammes — Plural form of oriflamme.
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- pig farmer — sb who raises pigs for meat
- pre-format — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- reaffirmed — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- reformable — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- rue family — the plant family Rutaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple or compound aromatic leaves, fragrant flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the citruses, the gas plant, Hercules'-club, and rue.
- salverform — (of the corolla of the phlox and certain other flowers) consisting of a narrow tube with flat spreading terminal petals