10-letter words containing f, e, m
- foredamned — condemned at some earlier time to eternal damnation
- foredoomed — Simple past tense and past participle of foredoom.
- foregleams — Plural form of foregleam.
- foreignism — a foreign custom, mannerism, etc.
- foremostly — In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
- foremother — a female ancestor.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- foretopmen — Plural form of foretopman.
- form genus — an artificial taxonomic category including species, especially of fossil forms, grouped together on the basis of morphological resemblance.
- formalised — Simple past tense and past participle of formalise.
- formaliter — formally
- formalized — Simple past tense and past participle of formalize.
- formalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formalize.
- formalness — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
- formalwear — clothing designed for or customarily worn on formal occasions, as tuxedos and evening gowns.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formatters — Plural form of formatter.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formlessly — In a formless manner.
- formulated — Simple past tense and past participle of formulate.
- formulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formulate.
- formulised — formulate.
- formulized — Simple past tense and past participle of formulize.
- fort meigs — Fort. Fort Meigs.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- found poem — a composition made by combining fragments of such printed material as newspapers, signs, or menus, and rearranging them into the form of a poem.
- fourierism — the social system proposed by François Marie Charles Fourier, under which society was to be organized into phalanxes or associations, each large enough for all industrial and social requirements.
- fragmental — fragmentary.
- fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- framboesia — yaws.
- frame line — a horizontal line separating consecutive frames on a strip of film.
- frame rate — (graphics) The number of frames of an animation which are displayed every second, measured in frames per second (fps). The higher the frame rate, the smoother the animation will appear but the more processing power and system bandwidth is required. At less than 30 fps, the human eye can see the new pictures coming onto the screen.
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- framemaker — (text) A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things. Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000. See also Maker Interchange Format.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- freedwomen — Plural form of freedwoman.
- freeganism — a person who buys as little as possible and makes use of recycled or discarded goods and materials, in an effort to reduce waste and limit environmental impact.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.
- freemasons — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- fremescent — rumbling; beginning to roar
- fresherdom — the state of being a fresher
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- frightsome — Frightening; frightful; fearful; causing fear.
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event