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14-letter words containing f, e, m, o

  • domestic staff — servants
  • dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
  • dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
  • electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
  • family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
  • fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • feel compelled — If you feel compelled to do something, you feel that you must do it, because it is the right thing to do.
  • female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
  • femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
  • femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
  • ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
  • ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferromanganese — a ferroalloy containing up to 90 percent manganese.
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
  • field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric field.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
  • film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
  • fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
  • first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
  • flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
  • flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
  • flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
  • flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • folk etymology — a modification of a linguistic form according either to a falsely assumed etymology, as Welsh rarebit from Welsh rabbit, or to a historically irrelevant analogy, as bridegroom from bridegome.
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • for the moment — for now
  • foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
  • foraminiferans — Plural form of foraminiferan.
  • foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
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