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

  • flimflammery — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
  • floor sample — an appliance, piece of furniture, or other article of merchandise that has been used for display or demonstration and is usually offered at a reduced price.
  • floor-manage — to act as or in the manner of a floor manager.
  • florida moss — Spanish moss.
  • florida room — a sunroom.
  • fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
  • fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
  • flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
  • food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
  • foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
  • for all time — forever, for eternity
  • foraminifera — 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.
  • forasmuch as — since
  • forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
  • fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.
  • foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
  • foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
  • foretopmasts — Plural form of foretopmast.
  • forex market — short for
  • formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • formal dress — clothing for elegant or solemn occasions
  • formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
  • formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
  • formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
  • formula milk — An artificial substitute for breast milk intended for feeding infants. It can come in powdered form to be mixed with water or in instant liquid form.
  • formula unit — (of an ionic compound that does not form molecules, as most salts) the chemical formula with the least number of elements out of the set of empirical formulas having the same proportion of ions as elements: NaCl is the formula unit for the ionic compound sodium chloride.
  • formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
  • formularizer — One who formularizes.
  • formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
  • formulations — Plural form of formulation.
  • fort laramie — a city in SE Wyoming.
  • fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
  • fort william — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • fragmentally — fragmentary.
  • fragmentized — fragmented.
  • frame buffer — (hardware)   Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. The term "video memory" suggests a fairly static display whereas a frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image. Frame buffers are found in frame grabbers and time base correction systems, for example.
  • frank murphyFrank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
  • frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
  • franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
  • fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
  • free company — a band of free companions.
  • freeze frame — an optical effect or technique in which a single frame of film is reprinted in a continuous series, which when shown gives the effect of a still photograph.
  • freeze-frame — an optical effect or technique in which a single frame of film is reprinted in a continuous series, which when shown gives the effect of a still photograph.
  • freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
  • from day one — from the very beginning
  • from scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
  • front matter — all material in a book that precedes the text proper, as the title page, copyright page, table of contents, dedication, and preface.
  • frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
  • fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
  • fruit farmer — somebody who farms or grows fruit
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