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11-letter words containing f, i, r, m, a

  • multifloral — Of or relating to more than one (variety of) flower.
  • multiformat — Accessible in more than one format.
  • myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
  • naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
  • omnifarious — of all forms, varieties, or kinds.
  • pacific rim — area around Pacific Ocean
  • papilliform — resembling a papilla.
  • passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
  • patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
  • pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
  • planuliform — resembling a planula
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • prima facie — at first appearance; at first view, before investigation.
  • prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
  • racing form — a sheet that provides detailed information about horse races, including background data on the horses, jockeys, etc.
  • raffia palm — any of various palms of the genus Raphia, as R. farinifera of tropical Africa, having pinnate leaves that yield a strong, flexible fiber.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • reformative — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
  • refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
  • rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
  • rigid frame — (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.
  • rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
  • rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
  • sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
  • scalariform — ladderlike.
  • scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
  • self-mailer — an advertisement, booklet, or the like, that has space for a name, address, and postage and can be mailed without a wrapper or envelope.
  • spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
  • steamfitter — a highly skilled person who installs and repairs pipes for air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, and heating systems
  • still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
  • superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
  • t formation — an offensive formation in which the quarterback lines up directly behind the center with the fullback about three yards behind the quarterback and the halfbacks on opposite sides of and about one yard from the fullback.
  • terra firma — firm or solid earth; dry land (as opposed to water or air).
  • traffic jam — jam1 (def 16).
  • trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.
  • travel film — a filmed documentary showing travel in a certain country or region
  • tympaniform — resembling or having the form of a drum or drum head
  • vasculiform — shaped like a small vase or flowerpot
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