11-letter words containing f, s, m
- form master — a teacher or member of a school's staff designated as being in charge of a certain form
- formalising — Present participle of formalise.
- formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formicaries — Plural form of formicary.
- formularies — Plural form of formulary.
- formularise — (British) To express as a formula, to formulate.
- formulators — Plural form of formulator.
- formulising — formulate.
- fort sumter — a fort in SE South Carolina, in the harbor of Charleston: its bombardment by the Confederates opened the Civil War on April 12, 1861.
- fort thomas — a city in N Kentucky.
- fortissimos — Plural form of fortissimo.
- forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
- foster home — a household in which a child is raised by someone other than its natural or adoptive parent.
- four-masted — carrying four masts.
- fragmentise — Alternative form of fragmentize.
- frame house — a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- free sample — taster of sth offered at no charge
- freemartins — Plural form of freemartin.
- freemasonry — secret or tacit brotherhood; fellowship; fundamental bond or rapport: the freemasonry of those who hunger for knowledge.
- fremescence — a dull or incipient rumbling or roaring sound
- french seam — a seam in which the raw edges of the cloth are completely covered by sewing them together, first on the right side, then on the wrong.
- freneticism — the state or quality of being frenetic
- freudianism — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- frost smoke — an ice fog caused by extremely cold air flowing over a body of comparatively warm water, especially in polar regions.
- frotteurism — (sexuality) The act of rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. Must be non-consensual and is considered a psychiatric condition as well as a criminal offense in most places. (If consensual, it is known as frottage).
- fuel system — The fuel system in a vehicle is the combination of parts needed to carry fuel into and out of the engine.
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
- fulsomeness — The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery.
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- gemmiferous — bearing buds or gemmae; gemmiparous.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gummiferous — producing gum
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- host family — family one lodges with
- humidifiers — Plural form of humidifier.
- if you must — You say 'if you must' when you know that you cannot stop someone doing something that you think is wrong or stupid.
- in terms of — a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- indemnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indemnify.
- infantilism — the persistence in an adult of markedly childish anatomical, physiological, or psychological characteristics.
- infirmaries — Plural form of infirmary.
- infirmities — Plural form of infirmity.