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12-letter words containing f, a, r, m

  • deformed bar — a rod for reinforcing concrete, having surface irregularities, as transverse ridges, to improve the bond.
  • defragmented — Simple past tense and past participle of defragment.
  • defragmenter — (computing) That which defragments; a program that performs defragmentation.
  • draft animal — an animal used for pulling heavy loads.
  • dram refresh — (storage)   The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
  • dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
  • dwarf mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
  • factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
  • fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
  • fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
  • familiarized — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • familiarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of familiarize.
  • familiarness — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • farm to fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • farm-to-fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • fata morgana — Meteorology. a mirage consisting of multiple images, as of cliffs and buildings, that are distorted and magnified to resemble elaborate castles, often seen near the Straits of Messina.
  • father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
  • fearsomeness — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
  • feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
  • fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • fermat prime — (mathematics)   A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
  • fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
  • fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
  • fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
  • file manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
  • filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
  • film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
  • fire-damaged — damaged by fire or in a fire
  • first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
  • fish farming — the job of rearing fish for commercial purposes
  • flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
  • flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
  • flameproofer — any agent which renders something flameproof
  • flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
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