16-letter words containing f, e, m
- a home from home — You can say a home from home in British English or a home away from home in American English to refer to a place in which you are as comfortable as in your own home.
- a matter of time — If you say that something is just a matter of time, you mean that it is certain to happen at some time in the future.
- academic freedom — freedom of a teacher or student to hold and express views without fear of arbitrary interference by officials
- act of indemnity — an act of Parliament granting exemption to public officers from technical penalties that they may have been compelled to incur
- admitting office — an office in a hospital where administrative staff carry out the procedures necessary to admit a patient to the hospital
- affirmative flag — a flag having five horizontal stripes, blue, white, red, white, and blue, from top to bottom, signifying “yes”: letter C in the International Code of Signals.
- african american — a black American of African descent.
- african-american — African-Americans are black people living in the United States who are descended from families that originally came from Africa.
- aluminum sulfate — a white crystalline salt, Al2(SO4)3, made by treating bauxite or clay with sulfuric acid: it is used in sizing paper, purifying water, fixing dyes, tanning, etc.
- amending formula — a specified process or procedure by which a constitution may be amended
- american buffalo — bison (def 1).
- aminotransferase — transaminase.
- ammonium sulfate — an ammonium salt, (NH4)2SO4, made chiefly from synthetic ammonia and used in making fertilizers, in treating water, etc.
- antimony sulfate — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-insoluble solid, Sb 2 (SO 4) 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives.
- antimony sulfide — antimony pentasulfide.
- armed forces day — the third Saturday in May, observed in some areas of the U.S. as a holiday in honor of all branches of the armed forces.
- attitude of mind — Your attitude of mind is your general way of thinking and feeling.
- autotransformers — Plural form of autotransformer.
- axis of symmetry — Mathematics. a straight line for which every point on a given curve has corresponding to it another point such that the line connecting the two points is bisected by the given line.
- be the making of — to cause the success of
- beefsteak tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- before your time — If you say that something was before your time, you mean that it happened or existed before you were born or before you were able to know about it or remember it.
- binuclear family — a social unit composed of an extended family, usually the children and subsequent spouses of divorced parents.
- bird of ill omen — a person who brings bad news.
- broomrape family — the plant family Orobanchaceae, characterized by scaly, leafless herbaceous plants that are parasitic on the roots of other plants and have irregular flowers and many-seeded capsular fruit, and including beechdrops, broomrape, and squawroot.
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- buttercup family — the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.
- butterfly damper — a damper, as in a flue, that rotates about a central axis across its face.
- butterfly scheme — A parallel version of Scheme for the BBN Butterfly computer.
- calcium fluoride — a white, crystalline compound, CaF 2 , insoluble in water, occurring in nature as the mineral fluorite: used as a flux in metallurgy and as a decay preventive in dentifrices.
- canada mayflower — a small wildflower (Maianthemum canadense) of the lily family, with white flowers and red, beadlike berries, found in the N U.S. and in Canada; bead-ruby
- centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
- chamber of trade — a national organization representing local chambers of commerce
- chemical warfare — warfare in which chemicals other than explosives are used as weapons, esp warfare using asphyxiating or nerve gases, poisons, defoliants, etc
- chinese fan palm — a fan palm, Livistona chinensis, of southern Japan, having very large, deeply cleft leaves and bluish-green, ovalish fruit.
- chloride of lime — a white powder with the approximate formula CaOCl2, obtained by treating slaked lime with chlorine and used for disinfecting and bleaching
- cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
- chromic fluoride — a green, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, CrF 3 ⋅4H 2 O or CrF 3 ⋅9H 2 O: used chiefly in printing and dyeing woolens.
- clermont-ferrand — a city in S central France: capital of Puy-de-Dôme department; industrial centre. Pop: 140 957 (2011)
- come from behind — sport: win from a disadvantaged position
- come full circle — to arrive back at one's starting point
- comedy of errors — an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.
- committee of one — an individual person designated to function alone as a committee.
- company of jesus — former name of the Society of Jesus.
- complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
- composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
- confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
- cooperative farm — a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions (farmers' cooperatives)
- cream of coconut — coconut cream (def 1).
- cream puff paste — paste made with eggs, water or milk, butter, and flour, used in making éclairs, profiteroles, and other kinds of puffs.
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