9-letter words containing f, e, m
- half-term — Half-term is a short holiday in the middle of a school term.
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hamfatter — a second-rate or ineffectual actor
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- headframe — a structure supporting the hoisting sheaves at the top of a mine shaft.
- hear from — receive news, correspondence from sb
- home farm — (esp formerly) a farm belonging to and providing food for a large country house
- home free — a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household.
- home life — a person's life at home; private life
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- homefries — Plural form of homefry.
- homefront — Alternative form of home front.
- hyperform — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by hypercorrection.
- imperfect — not perfect; lacking completeness: imperfect knowledge.
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- indemnify — to compensate for damage or loss sustained, expense incurred, etc.
- inflammed — Misspelling of inflamed.
- informers — Plural form of informer.
- interfirm — occurring between two or more companies
- keep from — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keto form — the form of tautomeric compounds when they are ketones rather than enols
- key frame — (graphics) A frame in an animated sequence of frames which was drawn or otherwise constructed directly by the user rather than generated automatically, e.g. by tweening.
- keyframes — Plural form of keyframe.
- leaf mold — a compost or layer of soil consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
- leitmotif — a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lentiform — lenticular.
- life form — the form that is characteristic of a particular organism at maturity.
- life mask — a cast of the face of a living person.
- lifeforms — Plural form of lifeform.
- lifetimes — Plural form of lifetime.
- m-1 rifle — a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- magnified — Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
- magnifier — a person or thing that magnifies.
- magnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of magnify.
- mainframe — a large computer, often the hub of a system serving many users.
- makefiles — Plural form of makefile.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- mala fide — in bad faith; not genuine.
- male fern — a bright-green fern, Dryopteris filix-mas, of Europe and northeastern North America.
- maleffect — an undesirable effect
- malformed — faultily or anomalously formed.
- mammifers — Plural form of mammifer.
- manfriend — A male friend.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- manifests — Plural form of manifest.
- mansfield — a city in W Nottinghamshire, in central England.
- masefield — John, 1878–1967, English poet: poet laureate 1930–67.
- masterful — dominating; self-willed; imperious.