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

  • offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
  • oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
  • passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
  • patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
  • performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • prima facie — at first appearance; at first view, before investigation.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
  • reformatory — serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
  • reformatted — 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.
  • reformulate — to formulate again.
  • refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • retransform — to transform back, again or differently
  • rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
  • rigid frame — (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
  • self-mailer — an advertisement, booklet, or the like, that has space for a name, address, and postage and can be mailed without a wrapper or envelope.
  • server farm — a collection of computer servers (usually in a business, organization, etc) used to accomplish tasks for which multiple machines are needed
  • sewage farm — a place where sewage is treated, esp for use as manure
  • sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
  • steamfitter — a highly skilled person who installs and repairs pipes for air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, and heating systems
  • still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
  • stream feed — (on a photocopier, printer) a continuous supply of paper
  • superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
  • swamp fever — leptospirosis.
  • tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
  • term of art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
  • terra firma — firm or solid earth; dry land (as opposed to water or air).
  • transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transformer — a person or thing that transforms.
  • trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.
  • travel film — a filmed documentary showing travel in a certain country or region
  • unformatted — Computers. pertaining to a disk that has not been electronically prepared to receive files or other text; blank: You cannot save files on an unformatted disk.
  • wharfmaster — a person who manages a wharf
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