14-letter words containing f, i, r, m
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
- multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- non-conforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
- non-conformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- non-conformity — failure or refusal to conform, as with established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- non-uniformity — the state or quality of being uniform; overall sameness, homogeneity, or regularity: uniformity of style.
- nonconformists — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- noninformation — an absence or lack of information
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
- officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
- on firm ground — in a safe situation
- opinion former — Opinion formers are people who have a lot of influence over what the public thinks about things.
- oral-formulaic — noting or pertaining to poetry of an earlier spoken tradition, as the Iliad, that uses formulas to aid its continued expression.
- order of merit — an order conferred on civilians and servicemen for eminence in any field
- overfamiliarly — In an overfamiliar way.
- overrefinement — excessive or unnecessary refinement.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
- pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
- paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
- parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
- performability — the quality of being performable
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
- rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
- re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- re-familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.