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17-letter words containing f, e, a, r, m, o

  • hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
  • in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
  • in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • letters of marque — a former government document authorizing an individual to make reprisals on the subjects of an enemy nation, specif. to arm a ship and capture enemy merchant ships and cargo
  • line of scrimmage — an imaginary line parallel to the goal lines that passes from one sideline to the other through the point of the football closest to the goal line of each team.
  • magnetizing force — that part of the magnetic induction that is determined at any point in space by the current density and displacement current at that point independently of the magnetic or other physical properties of the surrounding medium. Symbol: H.
  • make reference to — mention, allude to
  • make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
  • man enough to/for — If you say that a man is man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
  • manna from heaven — Bible: food from heaven
  • manufactured home — a prefabricated house, assembled in modular sections.
  • margaret of anjou — 1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.
  • mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
  • master of science — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the natural sciences, mathematics, or technology.
  • matter of opinion — a point open to question; a debatable statement
  • maurice of nassau — Prince of Orange 1567-1625; Du. statesman & military leader
  • mayflower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
  • merchant of death — a company, nation, or person that sells military arms on the international market, usually to the highest bidder and without scruple or regard for political ramifications.
  • metallofullerenes — Plural form of metallofullerene.
  • microfiche reader — a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfiche
  • minimal free form — the smallest unit of language that can make sense on its own
  • minister of state — (in the British Parliament) a minister, usually below cabinet rank, appointed to assist a senior minister with heavy responsibilities
  • mode of transport — means of travel
  • molecular formula — a chemical formula that indicates the kinds of atoms and the number of each kind in a molecule of a compound.
  • moment of inertia — the sum of the products of the mass and the square of the perpendicular distance to the axis of rotation of each particle in a body rotating about an axis.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • money-market fund — a mutual fund that invests in the money market.
  • month after month — every month
  • mother of vinegar — mother2 .
  • mount fairweather — a mountain in W North America, on the border between Alaska and British Columbia. Height: 4663 m (15 300 ft)
  • neurofibromatosis — a dominantly inherited genetic disorder characterized by flat brown patches on the skin, neurofibromas of the skin and internal organs, and in some cases skeletal deformity.
  • noninertial frame — a frame of reference that moves with the object, so that the moving object appears to violate Newton's laws of motion since it accelerates despite having no horizontal forces on it.
  • old norman french — Norman French (sense 1)
  • one-parent family — A one-parent family is a family that consists of one parent and his or her children living together.
  • organized ferment — ferment (def 1).
  • overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
  • pair of compasses — compass (def 7)
  • palette of narmer — a king of Egypt identified by modern scholars as the Menes of tradition and depicted as the unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt on an ancient slate tablet (Narmer Palette or Palette of Narmer) c3200 b.c. with relief carvings on both sides.
  • peer of the realm — any of a class of peers in Great Britain and Ireland entitled by heredity to sit in the House of Lords.
  • performance bonus — a monetary bonus paid to staff who have performed well in their job
  • performance drugs — the drugs that are taken illegally by athletes to enhance their sporting performance
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • pre-manifestation — an act of manifesting.
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