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14-letter words containing f, a, m, c

  • melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
  • merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
  • metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
  • microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
  • microsoft mail — (messaging, tool)   (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
  • mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
  • misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
  • multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • nonconformance — lack of conformity.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nonmaleficence — A lack or absence of maleficence.
  • nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • oral-formulaic — noting or pertaining to poetry of an earlier spoken tradition, as the Iliad, that uses formulas to aid its continued expression.
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • pacific salmon — any salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, especially the chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha.
  • pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
  • picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
  • processor farm — (computer, parallel)   A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
  • quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reference mark — Surveying. a permanent mark set at a specific distance in a specific direction from a survey station so as to permit accurate reestablishment of the station.
  • remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
  • semiofficially — in a semiofficial manner
  • shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
  • simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
  • soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
  • space platform — space station.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
  • to make a face — If you make a face, you show a feeling such as dislike or disgust by putting an exaggerated expression on your face, for example by sticking out your tongue. In British English, you can also say pull a face.
  • traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
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