9-letter words containing f, a, m, i
- fulminate — to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
- fumarolic — Of or relating to a fumarole or fumaroles.
- fumigants — Plural form of fumigant.
- fumigated — Simple past tense and past participle of fumigate.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- galeiform — helmet-shaped; resembling a galea.
- game fish — an edible fish capable of affording sport to the angler in its capture.
- graniform — Formed from or like corn.
- hail from — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- half dime — a silver coin of the U.S., equal to five cents, issued 1794–1805 and 1829–73.
- half-mile — a half of a mile (0.8 kilometer).
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hill farm — a farm in a high area, usually concentrating on sheep, because of the lack of winter fodder
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- infirmary — a place for the care of the infirm, sick, or injured; hospital or facility serving as a hospital: a school infirmary.
- inflaming — Present participle of inflame.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- infomania — Impairment of concentration caused by frequent response to text messages, e-mails, and other forms of digital communication.
- informant — a person who informs or gives information; informer.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- larviform — (zoology) Having the form or structure of a larva.
- life mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- link farm — (file system, Unix) A directory tree that contains mostly symbolic links to files in a master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree - for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object files. They also mean that changes to the master tree are instantly visible in the link farm. Good text editors provide the option to replace a link with a new version of the target file when saving thus allowing the farm to have its own versions of just those files that differ from the master tree. E.g. "Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and FROBOZZ-4 link farms." Link farms may also be used to get around restrictions on the number of "-I" (include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they can also get completely out of hand, becoming the file system equivalent of spaghetti code.
- magnifico — a Venetian nobleman.
- magnified — Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
- magnifier — a person or thing that magnifies.
- magnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of magnify.
- mail flag — a flag of the International Code of Signals symbolizing the letter Y, flown alone by a ship to indicate that it is carrying mail: a square flag with red and yellow diagonal stripes.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- mammifers — Plural form of mammifer.
- mammiform — having the shape of a breast
- manfriend — A male friend.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- manifests — Plural form of manifest.
- manifolds — Plural form of manifold.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
- masefield — John, 1878–1967, English poet: poet laureate 1930–67.
- match-fit — in good physical condition for competing in a match
- mattified — Simple past tense and past participle of mattify.
- mcauliffe — Anthony Clement, 1898–1975, U.S. Army general.
- mean life — the average time of existence of an unstable or reactive entity, such as a nucleus, elementary particle, charge carrier, etc; lifetime. It is equal to the half-life divided by 0.693 15
- megafirms — Plural form of megafirm.
- meiofauna — Minute interstitial animals living in soil and aquatic sediments.
- minecraft — a type of warship for sweeping mines at sea.