12-letter words containing f, e, m, o
- mournfulness — The property of being mournful.
- muffle color — Ceramics. a color fired onto an object in a muffle kiln.
- multifoliate — having many leaves or leaflets.
- murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- neoformation — a new and abnormal growth of tissue; tumor; neoplasm.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- nick of time — moment before sth is too late
- non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- nonconformer — One who does not conform to expected norms and standards; a nonconformist.
- nondeforming — not causing deformity
- nonflammable — not flammable; not combustible or easily set on fire.
- nonperformer — a person or thing that is not performing well or properly.
- off the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
- olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
- orthoformate — an ester of orthoformic acid.
- out of tempo — not in tempo
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outperformer — One who outperforms.
- overfamiliar — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
- preformation — previous formation.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- problem-free — without problems
- recomforture — consolation; comfort
- recover-from — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
- reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- self-command — self-control.
- self-imposed — imposed on one by oneself: a self-imposed task.
- self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense