13-letter words containing f, a, m
- chymification — the process of turning into chyme
- cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
- citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
- claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- cochleariform — having a spoon shape
- comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
- common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- confirmations — Plural form of confirmation.
- conformations — Plural form of conformation.
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
- creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- deaf-and-dumb — unable to hear or speak
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- defamiliarize — to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
- diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
- draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
- extrafamilial — Outside a family.
- facial eczema — a disease of sheep and cattle, occurring in warm areas of North Island, New Zealand. It is caused by a fungus, Pithomyces chartarum, and causes impairment of liver function and reddening, itching, scab formation, and swelling of the skin, esp on the face
- fait accompli — an accomplished fact; a thing already done: The enemy's defeat was a fait accompli long before the formal surrender.
- false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
- false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- familiarising — Present participle of familiarise.
- familiarities — Plural form of familiarity.
- familiarizing — Present participle of familiarize.
- family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family doctor — a general practitioner.