14-letter words containing f, r, e, m
- fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
- fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farm-gate sale — the sale of produce direct from the producer
- farmer-general — (in France, under the old monarchy) a member of a company of capitalists that farmed certain taxes.
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- feminine rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
- ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
- ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferromanganese — a ferroalloy containing up to 90 percent manganese.
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
- fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- fiery-tempered — easily angered
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
- fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
- fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
- first minister — In the Scottish Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly, the First Minister is the leader of the ruling party.
- first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- flame arrester — A flame arrester is a device which stops a flame from spreading along a pipe or tube.
- flame retarder — a material that, while not incombustible, does not itself maintain combustion without an external heat source and therefore retards the spread of fire
- flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- for the moment — for now
- 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 methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.