13-letter words containing f, o, r, m
- 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.
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- homofullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the insertion of a methylene group between adjacent carbon atoms.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- import tariff — a tax or duty imposed on imported goods
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- infiltrometer — a device used to measure the infiltration capacity of a soil.
- infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informatician — a person who works or studies in the field of informatics
- 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.
- interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
- lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
- magnesiferous — (geology) Containing magnesium.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- 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.
- manganiferous — containing manganese.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- mare frigoris — (Sea of Cold) a dark plain in the northern hemisphere, in the first and second quadrants of the face of the moon: about 55 miles (90 km) wide at its narrowest width and 750 miles (1200 km) long: about 67,000 sq. mi. (174,000 sq. km).
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- metrification — metrication.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- microfilariae — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilarial — relating to, or emanating from, microfilariae
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.