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12-letter words containing f, e, m

  • exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
  • facebook.com — (web)   One of the most popular social networking websites.
  • fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
  • false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
  • false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
  • familiarized — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • familiarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of familiarize.
  • familiarness — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
  • family bible — a large Bible usually having pages at the front for recording the marriages, births, and deaths in a family.
  • family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
  • family leave — a leave of absence from work in order to have or take care of a baby or to care for an ailing family member.
  • family style — a way of serving food, as in boardinghouses and some restaurants, in which the people at the table help themselves from large dishes passed around from hand to hand
  • fan magazine — a magazine containing information and gossip about celebrities.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
  • fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
  • fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
  • fearsomeness — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
  • feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
  • feature film — full-length movie
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
  • feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
  • female rhyme — feminine rhyme.
  • feminineness — The state or condition of being feminine.
  • femininities — Plural form of femininity.
  • feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
  • feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
  • femme fatale — an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into difficult, dangerous, or disastrous situations; siren.
  • fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • fermat prime — (mathematics)   A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
  • fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
  • fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
  • fermi energy — the level in the distribution of electron energies in a solid at which a quantum state is equally likely to be occupied or empty
  • ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
  • file a claim — If you file a claim, you make a request to an insurance company for payment of a sum of money according to the terms of an insurance policy.
  • file manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
  • filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
  • filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
  • final demand — the last in a series of requests for payment of money owed, which usually contains a threat of legal action if the demand is ignored
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
  • fire-damaged — damaged by fire or in a fire
  • firmer gouge — a narrow-bladed gouge similar in manner of use to a firmer chisel.
  • first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • first-termer — a person serving his or her first term, as a member of the U.S. Congress.
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