10-letter words containing a, t, m
- extramural — Outside the walls or boundaries of a town, college, or institution.
- factualism — emphasis on, devotion to, or extensive reliance upon facts: the factualism of scientific experiment.
- familistic — the subordination of the personal interests and prerogatives of an individual to the values and demands of the family: Familism characterized the patriarchal family.
- 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.
- fanaticism — fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
- farce-meat — forcemeat.
- farmerette — a girl or woman working on a farm.
- farmington — a city in NW New Mexico.
- farmsteads — Plural form of farmstead.
- 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.
- 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.
- feminality — The quality of being feminal; femininity.
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- 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.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- 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.
- flamboyant — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flame bait — (messaging) A Usenet posting or other message intended to trigger a flame war, or one that invites flames in reply.
- flame test — a test for detecting the presence of certain metals in compounds by the coloration they give to a flame. Sodium, for example, turns a flame yellow
- flame tree — either of two trees, Brachychiton acerifolius or B. australis, native to Australia, having clusters of bright scarlet flowers.
- flesh meat — the meat of birds or of animals other than fish, clams, etc., used as food
- food stamp — any of the coupons sold or given under a federal program to eligible needy persons and redeemable for food at designated grocery stores or markets.
- foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- formaliter — formally
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formatters — Plural form of formatter.
- formatting — 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.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- formulated — Simple past tense and past participle of formulate.
- formulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formulate.
- formulator — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- fragmental — fragmentary.
- fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- frame rate — (graphics) The number of frames of an animation which are displayed every second, measured in frames per second (fps). The higher the frame rate, the smoother the animation will appear but the more processing power and system bandwidth is required. At less than 30 fps, the human eye can see the new pictures coming onto the screen.
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.