10-letter words containing f, l, a, m
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- full-cream — denoting or made with whole unskimmed milk
- fulminated — Simple past tense and past participle of fulminate.
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- fulminator — One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely.
- fumadiddle — flumadiddle.
- fumé blanc — sauvignon blanc (sense 2)
- gangliform — having the form of a ganglion.
- glandiform — (anatomy) Shaped like, resembling, or characteristic of glands.
- gram flour — flour prepared from the gram seeds
- half frame — a photograph taking up half the normal area of a frame on a particular film, taken esp on 35-millimetre film
- half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- half-meant — simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- infamously — having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
- inflamable — a former spelling of inflammable
- infliximab — A chimeric monoclonal antibody used to treat autoimmune disorders.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- informally — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
- lake frome — a shallow salt lake in NE South Australia: intermittently filled with water. Length: 100 km (60 miles). Width: 48 km (30 miles)
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lamb's fry — lamb's offal, esp lamb's testicles, as food
- leaf miner — any of the larvae of any of numerous insects, as moths of the family Gracilariidae, that live in and feed on the parenchyma of leaves.
- leaf mould — Leaf mould is a substance consisting of decayed leaves that is used to improve the soil.
- lifestream — a record of all of one's online content and social interactions, presented chronologically on a single website: I just added Twitter to my lifestream.
- low fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- macfarlane — an overcoat with an attached cape and two slits in front near the waist.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- macroflora — Plants that can be seen with the naked eye.
- magnifical — magnificent; imposing.
- mala fides — bad faith; intent to cheat or deceive. Compare bona fides (def 1).
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- maleficent — doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious: maleficent destroyers of reputations.
- maleficial — abusive or hurtful
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- malleefowl — Alternative form of mallee fowl.
- malleiform — having the shape of a hammer
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- maned wolf — a South American wild dog, Chrysocyon jubatus, having a shaggy, reddish coat and long ears and legs: now reduced in number.
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manifolded — of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.