13-letter words containing f, e, m, s, o
- manganiferous — containing manganese.
- manifestation — an act of manifesting.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- mare frigoris — (Sea of Cold) a dark plain in the northern hemisphere, in the first and second quadrants of the face of the moon: about 55 miles (90 km) wide at its narrowest width and 750 miles (1200 km) long: about 67,000 sq. mi. (174,000 sq. km).
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- mellifluously — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
- monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
- monofilaments — Plural form of monofilament.
- montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- myelofibrosis — the replacement of bone marrow by fibrous tissue, characteristic of leukemia and certain other diseases.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- osmoconformer — Any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater.
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- pommes frites — French fries
- post feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- post-feminism — a way of thinking that develops, or reacts to or against previous feminist ideology
- post-feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-employed — earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.
- self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- state of mind — mental condition, mood
- sternforemost — Nautical. with the stern, foremost.
- sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another