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13-letter words containing f, o, a, m, l

  • football game — soccer match
  • foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
  • foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • formal review — (project)   A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
  • formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
  • formalization — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
  • formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
  • formula algol — An ALGOL extension for symbolic mathematics, strings and lists, developed by A.J. Perlis and R. Iturriaga at Carnegie for the CDC G-20 in 1962.
  • formulaically — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • formularizing — Present participle of formularize.
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
  • funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • gallows frame — headframe.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • half-marathon — running: 13-mile footrace
  • half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  • hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
  • heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
  • inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
  • inflammations — Plural form of inflammation.
  • informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
  • informalities — Plural form of informality.
  • informational — knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime.
  • informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • informatorily — in an informatory fashion
  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • islamofascism — an ideology promoted by some Islamists, the aims of which are to establish Islamic orthodoxy and to resist western secularism
  • kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
  • law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
  • let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
  • make light of — of little weight; not heavy: a light load.
  • malformations — Plural form of malformation.
  • malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • mallow family — the plant family Malvaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having palmately veined, lobed, or compound leaves, sticky juice, often showy five-petaled flowers with stamens united in a column, and fruit in the form of a capsule with several divisions, and including the cotton plant, hibiscus, hollyhock, mallow, okra, and rose of Sharon.
  • mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
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