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

  • make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
  • malice aforethought — a predetermination to commit an unlawful act without just cause or provocation (applied chiefly to cases of first-degree murder).
  • manufacturing plant — factory
  • maratha confederacy — a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.
  • margaret of navarre — 1492–1549, queen of Navarre 1544–49: patron of literature, author of stories, and poet.
  • mary wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
  • master of foxhounds — the person responsible for the conduct of a fox hunt and to whom all members of the hunt and its staff are responsible. Abbreviation: M.F.H.
  • master of the horse — (in England) the third official of the royal household
  • master of the rolls — (in England and Wales) the judge who presides over the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) and who was formerly Keeper of the Records at the Public Record Office
  • mayor of the palace — one of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms; a palatine.
  • means of production — resources: equipment, workers
  • measure for measure — a comedy (1604) by Shakespeare.
  • medical certificate — a document stating the result of a satisfactory medical examination
  • mediterranean fever — brucellosis.
  • midafternoon prayer — the fifth of the seven canonical hours; none
  • mine of information — source of great knowledge
  • minimum iron fabric — cloth used to make clothes that require little ironing
  • miracle of st. mark — a painting (1548) by Tintoretto.
  • more often than not — usually
  • most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
  • most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
  • mother-of-thousands — strawberry geranium.
  • on (or off) camera — so positioned as to be within (or out of) the camera's field of view
  • on first name terms — If two people are on first-name terms, they know each other well enough to call each other by their first names, rather than having to use a more formal title.
  • oriental fruit moth — a moth, Grapholitha molesta, introduced into the U.S. from Asia, the larvae of which infest and feed on the twigs and fruits of peach, plum, and related trees.
  • paraphase amplifier — an amplifier that produces a push-pull output from a single input.
  • patent infringement — breach of copyright
  • performance anxiety — the stage fright that a person feels when they are about to perform (a play, piece of music etc) in front of an audience
  • performance figures — the statistics that indicate how well or badly a company or organization has performed
  • performance targets — the expected or predicted success level of an individual, company or organization
  • pilgrimage of grace — a rebellion in 1536 in N England against the Reformation and Henry VIII's government
  • plastic deformation — In plastic deformation a material changes shape when a stress is applied to it and does not go back to its original state when the stress is removed.
  • presumption of fact — a presumption based on experience or knowledge of the relationship between a known fact and a fact inferred from it.
  • process performance — Process performance is a measure of how efficient or effective a process is.
  • production platform — offshore power station
  • queen street farmer — a businessman who runs a farm, often for a tax loss
  • republic of vietnam — the name (from 1955–75) for South Vietnam, as an independent republic, following the division of the country in 1954 into North Vietnam and South Vietnam
  • reticular formation — a network of neurons in the brainstem involved in consciousness, regulation of breathing, the transmission of sensory stimuli to higher brain centers, and the constantly shifting muscular activity that supports the body against gravity.
  • ring-spinning frame — a machine containing the ring, traveler, and bobbin used in spinning yarn.
  • self-administration — the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
  • self-aggrandizement — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
  • self-discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • self-transformation — the act or process of transforming.
  • sharp-focus realism — photorealism.
  • step-up transformer — a device that transfers an alternating current from one circuit to one or more other circuits with an increase of voltage
  • subsistence farming — farming whose products are intended to provide for the basic needs of the farmer, with little surplus for marketing.
  • sugar loaf mountain — a mountain in SE Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, at the entrance to Guanabara Bay. 1280 feet (390 meters).
  • take my word for it — If you say to someone 'take my word for it', you mean that they should believe you because you are telling the truth.
  • take one's cue from — If you take your cue from someone or something, you do something similar in a particular situation.
  • taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
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