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14-letter words containing f, a, r, m, c

  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
  • kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
  • lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • march fracture — a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers (march fracture)
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • matter-of-fact — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
  • merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
  • microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
  • microsoft mail — (messaging, tool)   (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
  • mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
  • multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
  • nonconformance — lack of conformity.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • 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.
  • pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
  • picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
  • 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 .
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reference mark — Surveying. a permanent mark set at a specific distance in a specific direction from a survey station so as to permit accurate reestablishment of the station.
  • remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • space platform — space station.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
  • transformistic — of or relating to transformism or transformists
  • unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
  • vacuum forming — a process in which a sheet of warmed thermoplastic is shaped by placing it in a mould and applying suction
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