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13-letter words containing a, f, e, r, m

  • farmer cheese — a cheese made by pressing together the soft white curds of whole milk or partly skimmed milk, similar in texture to dry cottage cheese.
  • farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
  • fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
  • feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • firing hammer — the part of the firing mechanism of a firearm that ignites the charge by striking the primer
  • first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
  • fleet air arm — the aviation branch of the Royal Navy
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floor manager — a person assigned to direct the proceedings on the floor of an assembly, as at a political convention.
  • floral emblem — a flower or plant serving as the emblem of a city, state, nation, etc.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
  • foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
  • foraminiferan — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
  • forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
  • forgotten man — a person no longer in the mind of the general public.
  • formal review — (project)   A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
  • formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
  • fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
  • fragmentation — the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
  • frame grabber — (hardware)   A device that captures a single frame from an analog video signal (from a video camera or VCR) and stores it as a digital image under computer control.
  • frame of mind — mental state
  • frame pointer — A pointer to the current activation record in an implementation of a block structured language.
  • france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
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