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16-letter words containing f, e, l, t, m

  • goosefoot family — formerly, the plant family Chenopodiaceae, characterized by often weedy herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, small and inconspicuous flowers, and tiny, dry fruit, and including the beet, glasswort, goosefoot, Russian thistle, saltbush, and spinach; now part of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.
  • immediate family — parents, siblings, children
  • imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
  • imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
  • imperfectibility — The state or quality of being imperfectible.
  • in the middle of — at the centre of
  • infantile autism — a disorder appearing in children before the age of two and a half, characterized by lack of interest in others, impaired communication skills, and bizarre behavior, as ritualistic acts and excessive attachment to objects.
  • infinite decimal — nonterminating decimal.
  • letter of marque — license or commission granted by a state to a private citizen to capture and confiscate the merchant ships of another nation.
  • lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
  • madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
  • make the fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
  • man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • managerial staff — staff in positions of management
  • matter-of-factly — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
  • matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
  • mayfield heights — a city in N Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • powerpc platform — (architecture, standard)   (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-confinement — the act of confining.
  • self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
  • self-determinism — a theory that every present state or condition of the self is a result of previous states or conditions of the self.
  • self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
  • self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • self-dramatizing — exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation, etc., for dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically.
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
  • self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
  • self-fulfillment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
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