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

first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
footmen's gallery — the rearmost section of seats in the balcony of an English theater, especially in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
for the most part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
fractal dimension — (mathematics) A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
frames per second — (unit) (fps) The unit of measurement of the frame rate of a moving image.
frederick william — 1795–1861, king of Prussia 1840–61 (brother of William I of Prussia).
free-body diagram — A free-body diagram is a diagram of a structure in which all supports are replaced by forces.
freedmen's bureau — an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
from head to foot — all over one's body
front-end payment — a payment required or incurred in advance of a project in order to get it under way
functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
gamblers' fallacy — the fallacy that in a series of chance events the probability of one event occurring increases with the number of times another event has occurred in succession
gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
heat of formation — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a compound is formed from its constituent atoms
hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
image intensifier — any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter
impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
interim financing — temporary financing
isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
jump trace buffer — (JTB) A feature of some pipelined processors (e.g. Amulet, Pentium?) which stores the source and destination addresses of the last few branch instuctions executed. When a branch instruction is fetched, its source is looked for in the JTB. If found, the next instuction fetch will be from the previous destination of that branch. If it turns out that the branch shouldn't have been taken this time, then the pipeline is flushed. This means that in a tight loop it is not necessary to flush the pipeline every time you jump back to the start.
laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
letters of marque — a former government document authorizing an individual to make reprisals on the subjects of an enemy nation, specif. to arm a ship and capture enemy merchant ships and cargo
line of scrimmage — an imaginary line parallel to the goal lines that passes from one sideline to the other through the point of the football closest to the goal line of each team.
macfarlane burnet — Sir (Frank) Macfarlane [muh k-fahr-luh n] /məkˈfɑr lən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1985, Australian physician: Nobel Prize in Physiology 1960.
magnetizing force — that part of the magnetic induction that is determined at any point in space by the current density and displacement current at that point independently of the magnetic or other physical properties of the surrounding medium. Symbol: H.
make a difference — have a significant impact
make reference to — mention, allude to
make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
man enough to/for — If you say that a man is man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
man's best friend — a dog, especially as a pet.
manna from heaven — Bible: food from heaven
manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
margaret of anjou — 1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.
mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
master of science — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the natural sciences, mathematics, or technology.

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