11-letter words containing f, a, r, m
- fragmenting — a part broken off or detached: scattered fragments of the broken vase.
- fragmentise — Alternative form of fragmentize.
- fragmentize — to break (something) into fragments; break (something) apart.
- frame house — a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.
- frame relay — (communications) A DTE-DCE interface specification based on LAPD (Q.921), the Integrated Services Digital Network version of LAPB (X.25 data link layer). A common specification was produced by a consortium of StrataCom, Cisco, Digital, and Northern Telecom. Frame Relay is the result of wide area networking requirements for speed; LAN-WAN and LAN-LAN internetworking; "bursty" data communications; multiplicity of protocols and protocol transparency. These requirements can be met with technology such as optical fibre lines, allowing higher speeds and fewer transmission errors; intelligent network end devices (personal computers, workstations, and servers); standardisation and adoption of ISDN protocols. Frame Relay could connect dedicated lines and X.25 to ATM, SMDS, BISDN and other "fast packet" technologies. Frame Relay uses the same basic data link layer framing and Frame Check Sequence so current X.25 hardware still works. It adds addressing (a 10-bit Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI)) and a few control bits but does not include retransmissions, link establishment, windows or error recovery. It has none of X.25's session layer but adds some simple interface management. Any network layer protocol can be used over the data link layer Frames.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- framebuffer — (computing) A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
- framework 4 — A European Union funding programme, the information technology portion of which replaced ESPRIT.
- francomania — an obsession with France or French things
- freddie mac — Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
- free market — an economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.
- free sample — taster of sth offered at no charge
- freemartins — Plural form of freemartin.
- freemasonry — secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- freudianism — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- friar minor — a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis. Compare capuchin (def 4), Friar Minor Conventual.
- frigidarium — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- from a to b — People talk about getting from A to B when they are referring generally to journeys they need to make, without saying where the journeys will take them.
- from a to z — covering a whole topic
- from abroad — from a foreign land or lands
- from nature — using natural models in drawing, painting, etc
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- gallimaufry — a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- granitiform — resembling granite
- granny farm — a home where old people are cared for
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- health farm — A health farm is a hotel where people go to get fitter or lose weight by exercising and eating special food.
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- i formation — an offensive alignment in which the backs are positioned in line directly behind the quarterback.
- imperforate — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- infantryman — a soldier of the infantry.
- infantrymen — Plural form of infantryman.
- infirmarian — (in a religious house) a person who nurses the sick.
- infirmaries — Plural form of infirmary.
- infirmative — (obsolete) Tending to weaken, annul, or make void.
- infomediary — An Internet company that gathers and links information on particular subjects on behalf of commercial organizations and their potential customers.
- infomercial — a long commercial that informs or instructs, especially in an original and entertaining manner: an infomercial on making Christmas decorations using the sponsor's brand of glue.
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- informatics — the study of information processing; computer science.
- information — knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime.
- informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informatize — (of a country, region, etc) to undergo the development of an information-based economy on an extensive scale
- informatory — Providing or communicating information.