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11-letter words containing f, s, m

  • familiarise — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • familymoons — Plural form of familymoon.
  • fanny adams — absolutely nothing at all
  • farm cheese — a mild, firm pressed cheese
  • farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
  • farm-sitter — a person who takes temporary charge of a farm during the absence or incapacity of the owner.
  • farmworkers — Plural form of farmworker.
  • farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
  • fast motion — action that appears to move faster than normal on the screen, accomplished by filming the action at less than normal speed in the camera and then projecting it at normal speed.
  • fast-moving — moving or capable of moving at high speed.
  • favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
  • femtosecond — One quadrillionth of a second.
  • field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • film rights — the rights purchased from the author of a work that enable a film maker to make a film of it
  • film script — a script containing dialogue and directions for a film; a screenplay
  • film studio — a place where films are made
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
  • fire master — (in Scotland) the person in charge of a fire brigade
  • firemasters — Plural form of firemaster.
  • first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
  • first-timer — a person who does, experiences, or attends something for the first time.
  • fish farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes
  • fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
  • fish market — a market selling fish
  • fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  • fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
  • fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
  • fissiparism — (biology) reproduction by spontaneous fission.
  • fitzsimmons — James ("Sunny Jim") 1874–1966, U.S. racehorse trainer.
  • flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
  • flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
  • flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  • flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
  • flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
  • fleshmonger — (archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
  • fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
  • flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
  • flusterment — the state of being flustered
  • foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
  • folk wisdom — wisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
  • fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
  • foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
  • foreignisms — Plural form of foreignism.
  • foremanship — The position of a foreman.
  • foremastman — a sailor positioned before the foremast
  • foremothers — Plural form of foremother.
  • foretopmast — (nautical) The mast above the foretop.
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