12-letter words containing f, i, l, m, o
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- formula milk — An artificial substitute for breast milk intended for feeding infants. It can come in powdered form to be mixed with water or in instant liquid form.
- formula unit — (of an ionic compound that does not form molecules, as most salts) the chemical formula with the least number of elements out of the set of empirical formulas having the same proportion of ions as elements: NaCl is the formula unit for the ionic compound sodium chloride.
- formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
- formularizer — One who formularizes.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fort laramie — a city in SE Wyoming.
- fort william — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- fulminations — Plural form of fulmination.
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
- ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
- inflammation — Pathology. redness, swelling, pain, tenderness, heat, and disturbed function of an area of the body, especially as a reaction of tissues to injurious agents.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationism — the policy or practice of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malformation — faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- microfibrils — Plural form of microfibril.
- microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
- microfluidic — Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics.
- microfossils — a fossil so small that it can be studied and identified only with a microscope.
- mollifyingly — So as to mollify.
- monofilament — Also, monofil [mon-uh-fil] /ˈmɒn əˌfɪl/ (Show IPA). a single, generally large filament of synthetic fiber. Compare multifilament (def 2).
- monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
- morbilliform — (of a rash) resembling measles
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.