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

  • demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • familiarising — Present participle of familiarise.
  • familiarizing — Present participle of familiarize.
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • family-minded — devoted to one's family
  • fantasmagoria — phantasmagoria.
  • fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
  • farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
  • fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
  • fellow inmate — sb in same prison
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • fencing match — a match between fencers
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • filamentation — The growth of filaments.
  • firing hammer — the part of the firing mechanism of a firearm that ignites the charge by striking the primer
  • first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
  • five-and-dime — a shop that sells a wide variety of things at a cheap price
  • flagellomania — enthusiasm for whipping or being whipped
  • flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flaminian way — an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • fleming valve — (formerly) a diode.
  • flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
  • floor manager — a person assigned to direct the proceedings on the floor of an assembly, as at a political convention.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
  • foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
  • foraminiferan — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
  • forgotten man — a person no longer in the mind of the general public.
  • formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
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