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12-letter words containing f, a, m

  • neoformation — a new and abnormal growth of tissue; tumor; neoplasm.
  • neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • nitrate film — film stock using a base of cellulose nitrate: extremely flammable and tending to erode at a relatively early age.
  • no match for — If one person or thing is no match for another, they are unable to compete successfully with the other person or thing.
  • non-familial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
  • nonflammable — not flammable; not combustible or easily set on fire.
  • nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
  • nonformulary — Not formulary.
  • normal fault — gravity fault.
  • off the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
  • oil platform — An oil platform is a structure that is used when getting oil from the ground under the sea.
  • olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
  • olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
  • olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
  • organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • orthoformate — an ester of orthoformic acid.
  • overfamiliar — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
  • oxford comma — a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word 'and' or 'or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books
  • oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
  • pacific time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
  • perfect ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
  • phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
  • poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
  • preamplifier — a device in the amplifier circuit of a radio or phonograph that increases the strength of a weak signal for detection and further amplification.
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
  • quasi-famous — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
  • rachmaninoff — Sergei Wassilievitch [sur-gey vuh-seel-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1943, Russian pianist and composer.
  • raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
  • reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
  • roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
  • roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
  • rotflmaoastc — (chat)   Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (or arse) off and scaring the cat. The superlative form of ROTFL.
  • royal family — the immediate family of a reigning monarch.
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