10-letter words containing f, a, m
- fragmental — fragmentary.
- fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- framboesia — yaws.
- frame line — a horizontal line separating consecutive frames on a strip of film.
- frame rate — (graphics) The number of frames of an animation which are displayed every second, measured in frames per second (fps). The higher the frame rate, the smoother the animation will appear but the more processing power and system bandwidth is required. At less than 30 fps, the human eye can see the new pictures coming onto the screen.
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- framemaker — (text) A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things. Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000. See also Maker Interchange Format.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- framingham — a town in E Massachusetts.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- freeganism — a person who buys as little as possible and makes use of recycled or discarded goods and materials, in an effort to reduce waste and limit environmental impact.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.
- freemasons — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event
- frog march — to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.
- frog-march — If you are frog-marched somewhere, someone takes you there by force, holding you by the arms or another part of your body so that you have to walk along with them.
- from day 1 — from the very beginning
- frontwoman — The lead female singer in a band.
- fruit farm — a farm where fruit is grown
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- full-cream — denoting or made with whole unskimmed milk
- fulminated — Simple past tense and past participle of fulminate.
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- fulminator — One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely.
- fumadiddle — flumadiddle.
- fumatorium — an airtight structure in which plants are fumigated to destroy fungi or insects.
- fumé blanc — sauvignon blanc (sense 2)
- fumigating — Present participle of fumigate.
- fumigation — to expose to smoke or fumes, as in disinfecting or exterminating roaches, ants, etc.
- fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
- fumigatory — having the ability to fumigate; relating to fumigation
- fundaments — Plural form of fundament.
- funny farm — a psychiatric hospital.
- gangliform — having the form of a ganglion.
- glandiform — (anatomy) Shaped like, resembling, or characteristic of glands.
- gram flour — flour prepared from the gram seeds
- half frame — a photograph taking up half the normal area of a frame on a particular film, taken esp on 35-millimetre film
- half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- half-meant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.