17-letter words containing f, o, m, i

ferroelectric ram — Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
fifth commandment — “Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”: fifth of the Ten Commandments.
fifth normal form — database normalisation
fine-toothed comb — a comb with fine, closely set teeth
fire commissioner — the senior or officer at state or provincial level in charge of fire prevention and fire safety
firehose syndrome — (networking, jargon) An absence, failure or inadequacy of flow control mechanisms causing the sender to overwhelm the receiver. The implication is that, like trying to drink from a firehose, the consequenses are worse than just loss of data, e.g. the receiver may crash. See ping-flood.
first commandment — “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”: first of the Ten Commandments.
first normal form — database normalisation
first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
forensic medicine — the application of medical knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law, especially in court proceedings.
formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
fourier transform — a mapping of a function, as a signal, that is defined in one domain, as space or time, into another domain, as wavelength or frequency, where the function is represented in terms of sines and cosines.
fractal dimension — (mathematics) A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
free-body diagram — A free-body diagram is a diagram of a structure in which all supports are replaced by forces.
french somaliland — a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
from side to side — movement: back and forth
from time to time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
full-motion video — (video) (FMV) Any kind of video that is theoretically capable of changing the entire content on the screen fast enough that the transitions are not obvious to the human eye, i.e. about 24 times a second or more. In practise most video encoding relies on the fact that in most video there is relatively little change from one frame to the next. This allows for compression of the video data. The term is used, chiefly in computer games, in contrast to techniques such as the use of sprites that move against a more-or-less fixed background.
function complete — (programming) State of a software component or system such that each function described by the software's functional specification can be reached by at least one functional path, and attempts to operate as specified.
functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
heat of formation — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a compound is formed from its constituent atoms
hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
homo floresiensis — a possible species of very small, primitive human: its fossils were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003.
homolytic fission — the dissociation of a molecule into two neutral fragments
house of ill fame — a house of prostitution; brothel
if you don't mind — People use the expression if you don't mind when they are rejecting an offer or saying that they do not want to do something, especially when they are annoyed.
immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
implicit function — See at implicit (def 4).
impossible figure — a picture of an object that at first sight looks three-dimensional but cannot be a two-dimensional projection of a real three-dimensional object, for example a picture of a staircase that re-enters itself while appearing to ascend continuously
improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
in forma pauperis — as a poor person; i.e. without paying court costs
in someone's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
incomplete flower — a flower without one or more of the normal parts, as carpels, sepals, petals, pistils, or stamens.
inertial platform — self-contained navigational devices used in inertial guidance, along with their mounting.
isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
isthmus of panama — an isthmus linking North and South America, between the Pacific and the Caribbean. Length: 676 km (420 miles). Width (at its narrowest point): 50 km (31 miles)
judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
jumping-off point — A jumping-off point or a jumping-off place is a place, situation, or occasion which you use as the starting point for something.
knocking-off time — the time when you finish work
law of trichotomy — the property that for natural numbers a and b , either a is less than b , a equals b , or a is greater than b .
life imprisonment — long-term prison sentence
line of scrimmage — an imaginary line parallel to the goal lines that passes from one sideline to the other through the point of the football closest to the goal line of each team.
luminous efficacy — the quotient of the luminous flux of a radiation and its corresponding radiant flux
lyon king of arms — the chief herald of Scotland
magnetizing force — that part of the magnetic induction that is determined at any point in space by the current density and displacement current at that point independently of the magnetic or other physical properties of the surrounding medium. Symbol: H.
make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.

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