14-letter words containing f, o, a, m
- football match — a match played between two football teams
- footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
- foramen magnum — the large opening in the base of the skull forming the passage from the cranial cavity to the spinal canal.
- foraminiferans — Plural form of foraminiferan.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
- formal grammar — a set of syntactically valid formation rules of a formal language
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formally valid — (of an inference or argument) when the inference is justified by the form of the premises and conclusion alone. Thus Tom is a bachelor; therefore Tom is unmarried is valid but not formally so, while today is hot and dry; therefore today is hot is formally valid
- format-fortran — Fortran Matrix Abstraction Technique Fortran
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- formosa strait — an arm of the Pacific Ocean between China and Taiwan, connecting the East and South China Seas.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- forward market — future commodities trading
- foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- free companion — a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
- game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
- grow away from — lose attachment
- guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
- gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
- half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- humidification — to make humid.
- in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly bush, Carolina jessamine, logania, and trees of the genus Strychnos, which are the source of curare, nux vomica, and strychnine.
- loophole frame — a frame in the opening of a wall enclosing a window and some other opening.
- lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
- main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell