13-letter words containing e, m, f
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- computer file — file
- confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- counterreform — a reform which opposes or acts against another reform
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
- crime-fighter — any person, as a law-enforcement officer or government official, who works to prevent crime or to enforce criminal laws.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
- deaf-and-dumb — unable to hear or speak
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- defamiliarize — to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it
- deflectometer — An instrument that measures the deflection of structures when loads are applied.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- dehumidifiers — Plural form of dehumidifier.
- demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- electroformed — Produced, or modified by electroforming.
- end of medium — (character) (EM) ASCII character 25.
- enrolment fee — the amount of money payable when you enrol on a course, at a university, etc
- extrafamilial — Outside a family.
- facial eczema — a disease of sheep and cattle, occurring in warm areas of North Island, New Zealand. It is caused by a fungus, Pithomyces chartarum, and causes impairment of liver function and reddening, itching, scab formation, and swelling of the skin, esp on the face
- false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
- false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- familiarities — Plural form of familiarity.
- family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- family jewels — a man's genitals
- family values — belief in traditional family unit