18-letter words containing f, e, m
- terms of reference — Terms of reference are the instructions given to someone when they are asked to consider or investigate a particular subject, telling them what they must deal with and what they can ignore.
- the beautiful game — football
- the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
- the full treatment — If you say that someone is given the full treatment, you mean either that they are treated extremely well or that they are treated extremely severely.
- the hand of fatima — a symbol of a hand used in some Arabic countries to protect against the evil eye, a magical power
- the mosque of omar — the mosque in Jerusalem, Israel, built in 691 ad by caliph 'Abd al-Malik: the third most holy place of Islam; stands on the Temple Mount alongside the al-Aqsa mosque
- thermal efficiency — the ratio of the work output of a heat engine to the heat input expressed in the same units of energy.
- time of one's life — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- to fall from grace — If someone falls from grace, they suddenly stop being successful or popular.
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- treasury of merits — the superabundant store of merits and satisfactions, comprising those of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints.
- tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
- unfair competition — acts done by a seller to confuse or deceive the public with intent to acquire a larger portion of the market, as by cutting prices below cost, misleading advertising, selling a spurious product under a false identity, etc.
- vermiform appendix — a narrow, blind tube protruding from the cecum, having no known useful function, in humans being 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 cm) long and situated in the lower right-hand part of the abdomen.
- vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
- vitamin deficiency — a lack of a vitamin or vitamins needed for good health
- what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
- white-footed mouse — any of several North American woodland mice of the genus Peromyscus, especially P. leucopus, having white feet and undersides.
- wildlife programme — (esp on television) a documentary whose subject is wild animals in their natural habitat or undomesticated fauna and flora generally
- witch hazel family — the plant family Hamamelidaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having alternate, simple leaves, flowers in clusters or heads, and fruit in the form of a double-beaked woody capsule, and including the sweet gum, witch alder, and witch hazel.
- woman of the house — lady of the house.
- woman of the world — a woman experienced and sophisticated in the ways and manners of the world, especially the world of society.
- writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement