14-letter words containing f, e, m, o
- forward market — future commodities trading
- founder member — A founder member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
- foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- free companion — a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.
- freedom riders — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
- french morocco — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
- from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
- from the floor — during the time of a game when active defense is permitted
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
- frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
- game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
- graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
- guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
- gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
- half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- home-from-home — a place that is as pleasant and comfortable as a person's own home
- hopfield model — Hopfield network
- immersion foot — an abnormal condition of the foot caused by prolonged exposure to water, characterized by pathological changes in the skin, blood vessels, nerves, and muscles.
- in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- in/out of time — If you are playing, singing, or dancing in time with a piece of music, you are following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly. If you are out of time with it, you are not following the rhythm and speed of the music correctly.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- interferometer — Optics. a device that separates a beam of light into two ray beams, usually by means of reflection, and that brings the rays together to produce interference, used to measure wavelength, index of refraction, and astronomical distances.
- interferometry — Optics. a device that separates a beam of light into two ray beams, usually by means of reflection, and that brings the rays together to produce interference, used to measure wavelength, index of refraction, and astronomical distances.
- john c fremont — John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.
- kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- loophole frame — a frame in the opening of a wall enclosing a window and some other opening.
- lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- make a fortune — win, earn a vast amount of money
- make a fuss of — If you make a fuss of someone, you pay them a lot of attention and do things to make them happy or comfortable.
- make a hash of — a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.
- make a joke of — If you make a joke of something, you laugh at it even though it is in fact rather serious or sad.
- make a meal of — to perform (a task) with unnecessarily great effort
- make a muck of — to ruin or spoil
- make an end of — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- male-to-female — noting or relating to a person who was born male but whose gender identity and gender expression is female.
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- man of galilee — Jesus.
- man of letters — highly educated man