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

  • noninflammable — Not catching fire easily; not flammable.
  • noninformation — an absence or lack of information
  • nonmaleficence — A lack or absence of maleficence.
  • nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
  • of your dreams — If you describe someone or something as the person or thing of your dreams, you mean that you consider them to be ideal or perfect.
  • off one's game — playing badly
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
  • 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.
  • overfamiliarly — In an overfamiliar way.
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • pacific salmon — any salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, especially the chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
  • platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • 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 .
  • quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
  • ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
  • re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
  • salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
  • 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.
  • sea of marmara — a deep inland sea in NW Turkey, linked with the Black Sea by the Bosporus and with the Aegean by the Dardanelles: separates Turkey in Europe from Turkey in Asia. Area: 11 471 sq km (4429 sq miles)
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • semiofficially — in a semiofficial manner
  • simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
  • sodium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 SO 4 , used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, soaps, detergents, glass, and ceramic glazes.
  • 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.
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • somar software — (company)   The distributors of Somar DumpAcl and other utilities for Windows NT. Address: Washington, DC, USA.
  • space platform — space station.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
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