10-letter words containing f, r, e, m
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- framemaker — (text) A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things. Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000. See also Maker Interchange Format.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- freedwomen — Plural form of freedwoman.
- freeganism — a person who buys as little as possible and makes use of recycled or discarded goods and materials, in an effort to reduce waste and limit environmental impact.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.
- freemasons — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- fremescent — rumbling; beginning to roar
- fresherdom — the state of being a fresher
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- frightsome — Frightening; frightful; fearful; causing fear.
- 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
- frolicsome — merrily playful; full of fun.
- frontwomen — Plural form of frontwoman.
- frumentius — Saint, a.d. c300–c380, founder of the Ethiopian Church.
- frumpiness — The characteristic of being frumpy.
- full rhyme — rhyme in which the stressed vowels and all following consonants and vowels are identical, but the consonants preceding the rhyming vowels are different, as in chain, brain; soul, pole.
- full-cream — denoting or made with whole unskimmed milk
- full-timer — a full-time worker.
- fumitories — Plural form of fumitory.
- funnelform — shaped like a funnel, as the corolla of the morning-glory; infundibuliform.
- furosemide — A synthetic compound with a strong diuretic action, used especially in the treatment of edema.
- futhermore — Misspelling of furthermore.
- 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-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.
- hammerfest — a seaport in N Norway: the northernmost town in Europe.
- headframes — Plural form of headframe.
- home fries — pan-fried potatoes
- home front — the civilian sector of a nation at war when its armed forces are in combat abroad.
- humidifier — a device for increasing the amount of water vapor in the air of a room or building, consisting of a container for water and a vaporizer.
- ill-formed — badly formed.
- imperfects — Plural form of imperfect.
- impurified — Simple past tense and past participle of impurify.
- infirmarer — the infirmarian of a mediaeval monastery
- infirmness — The quality of being infirm; feebleness.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- interframe — (signal processing) A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.
- intraframe — (signal processing) A video frame which does not depend on any other frame for rendering, but simply presents fixed image. Usually subject to spatial compression.
- 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)
- 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.
- letterform — a sheet of stationery used for letters.