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13-letter words containing f, a, m, i

  • german africa — the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.
  • gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
  • ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
  • graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
  • habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half the time — If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
  • image formats — (graphics, file format)   There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
  • immunifacient — causing immunity
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
  • import tariff — a tax or duty imposed on imported goods
  • inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
  • indemnifiable — Something suitable for indemnification.
  • infallibilism — the principle of papal infallibility
  • infinitesimal — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
  • inflammations — Plural form of inflammation.
  • infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
  • informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
  • informalities — Plural form of informality.
  • informatician — a person who works or studies in the field of informatics
  • informational — knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime.
  • informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • informatorily — in an informatory fashion
  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • inframarginal — below the margin; submarginal.
  • interfamilial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
  • interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
  • islamofascism — an ideology promoted by some Islamists, the aims of which are to establish Islamic orthodoxy and to resist western secularism
  • laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
  • law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
  • legume family — the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
  • magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
  • magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • magnification — the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified.
  • magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • make mischief — cause trouble
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