10-letter words containing a, m, f
- family car — a car suitable for a family
- family man — a man who has a spouse and one or more children.
- family way — family (def 18).
- familyless — Without a family.
- familylike — Resembling a family.
- familymoon — A honeymoon in which the newlywed couple bring along their children.
- famishment — Starvation; the fact or process of being famished.
- famotidine — A histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits stomach acid production, commonly used to treat peptic ulcers.
- famousness — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- fanaticism — fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
- fannie mae — Federal National Mortgage Association.
- farce-meat — forcemeat.
- farmerette — a girl or woman working on a farm.
- farmhouses — Plural form of farmhouse.
- farmington — a city in NW New Mexico.
- farmsteads — Plural form of farmstead.
- farmworker — farm hand.
- fasciotomy — (surgery) The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fathometer — (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
- fathomless — impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
- fauxhemian — Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
- fauxminist — a person who makes an insincere pretence of feminism
- favoritism — the favoring of one person or group over others with equal claims; partiality: to show favoritism toward the youngest child.
- fearmonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- fearsomely — In a fearsome manner, or to a fearsome extent.
- federalism — the federal principle of government.
- feel small — to be humiliated or inferior
- femalelike — Resembling or characteristic of a female.
- femaleness — a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.
- feminality — The quality of being feminal; femininity.
- ferrograms — plural of Ferrogram
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- field army — army (def 2).
- filamented — Of or relating to a filament; having filaments; filamentous.
- film at 11 — (jargon) (MIT, in parody of US TV newscasters) 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. "ITS crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in scheduler; film at 11." 2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information will be available at some future time, *without* the implication of anything particularly ordinary about the referenced event. For example, "The mail file server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory. Film at 11." would indicate that a major failure had occurred but that the people working on it have no additional information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal "11:00 news", if people will just be patient.
- film badge — a badgelike device that, when processed, indicates whether a dose of radiation has been received: worn by workers subject to radiation exposure.
- film-maker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filmically — (nonstandard) in a filmic manner.
- filmmakers — Plural form of filmmaker.
- filmmaking — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- finger man — a person who points out someone to be murdered, robbed, etc.
- fingermark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
- fire alarm — a signal that warns that a fire has started.
- firemaster — (Scotland) The chief of a fire brigade.
- firmaments — Plural form of firmament.
- first mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- first name — given or Christian name
- first-name — of or relating to one's first, or given, name; familiar; intimate: They were on a first-name basis soon after meeting.