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18-letter words containing f, a, c, e, m, i

  • malicious mischief — willful destruction of personal property motivated by ill will or resentment toward its owner or possessor.
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • medical profession — the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
  • medium of exchange — anything generally accepted as representing a standard of value and exchangeable for goods or services.
  • merchant of venice — a comedy (1596?) by Shakespeare.
  • metamorphic facies — Geology. a group of metamorphic rock units characterized by particular mineralogic associations.
  • mexican fire-plant — a showy plant, Euphorbia heterophylla, of the spurge family, growing in the central U.S. to central South America, having red or mottled red and white bracts.
  • microsoft exchange — (messaging)   Microsoft's messaging and enterprise collaboration server. Exchange's primary role is as an electronic mail message store but it can also store calendars, task lists, contact details, and other data.
  • misplaced modifier — Grammar. a word, phrase, or clause that seems to refer to or modify an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence, as when young in When young, circuses appeal to all of us.
  • nike of samothrace — a Greek marble statue (c200 b.c.) of Nike found at Samothrace and now in the Louvre, Paris.
  • oil of catechumens — holy oil used in baptism, the ordination of a cleric, the coronation of a sovereign, or in the consecration of a church.
  • omega-3 fatty acid — a polyunsaturated fatty acid, essential for normal retinal function, that influences various metabolic pathways, resulting in lowered cholesterol and triglyceride levels, inhibited platelet clotting, and reduced inflammatory and immune reactions.
  • once in a lifetime — extremely rarely
  • performance artist — an artist that is involved in a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc
  • quantum efficiency — the number of electrons released by a photocell per photon of incident radiation of a given energy
  • quick off the mark — If you are quick off the mark, you are quick to understand or respond to something. If you are slow off the mark, you are slow to understand or respond to something.
  • reaction formation — a behavioral tendency developed in direct opposition to a repressed impulse.
  • richard p. feynman — (person, computing, architecture)   /fayn'mn/ 1918-1988. A US physicist, computer scientist and author who graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton. Feynmane was a key figure in helping Oppenheimer and team develop atomic bomb. In 1950 he became a professor at Caltech and in 1965 became Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics for QED (quantum electrodynamics). He was a primary figure in "solving" the Challenger disaster O-ring problem. He "rediscovered" the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Tuva. The 2001 film "Infinity" about Feynman's early life featured Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette. In 2001, "QED", a play about Feynman's life featuring Alan Alda opened.
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • self-contemplation — the act or process of thinking about oneself or one's values, beliefs, behavior, etc.
  • self-incriminating — serving to incriminate oneself or to expose oneself to prosecution: self-incriminating testimony.
  • self-incrimination — the act of incriminating oneself or exposing oneself to prosecution, especially by giving evidence or testimony.
  • self-mortification — the inflicting of pain or privation on oneself: He was certain that self-mortification was the only road to salvation.
  • self-recrimination — the act of recriminating, or countercharging: Hope gave way to recrimination with both sides claiming the moral high ground.
  • senior aircraftman — a rank in the Royal Air Force comparable to that of a private in the army, though not the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force
  • statement of claim — law: first pleading
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
  • unfair competition — acts done by a seller to confuse or deceive the public with intent to acquire a larger portion of the market, as by cutting prices below cost, misleading advertising, selling a spurious product under a false identity, etc.
  • vitamin deficiency — a lack of a vitamin or vitamins needed for good health
  • witch hazel family — the plant family Hamamelidaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having alternate, simple leaves, flowers in clusters or heads, and fruit in the form of a double-beaked woody capsule, and including the sweet gum, witch alder, and witch hazel.
  • writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement
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