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.