16-letter words containing f, u, r, m
- fund supermarket — an online facility offering discounted investment opportunities and advice
- fundamental star — one of a number of stars with positions that have been determined accurately and that are used as reference stars for the determination of positions of other celestial objects.
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- gulf of martaban — an inlet of the Bay of Bengal in Myanmar
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
- ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
- kekule's formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- letter of marque — license or commission granted by a state to a private citizen to capture and confiscate the merchant ships of another nation.
- lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
- madame butterfly — an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.
- make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
- make the fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
- mallowpuff māori — a Māori who is considered to behave like a white person
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- matron of honour — a married woman serving as chief attendant to a bride
- matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
- matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
- medium frequency — any frequency between 300 and 3000 kilohertz. Abbreviation: MF.
- mercuric sulfide — a crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous compound, HgS, occurring as a coarse, black powder (black mercuric sulfide) or as a fine, bright-scarlet powder (red mercuric sulfide) used chiefly as a pigment and as a source of the free metal.
- metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
- mexican fruitfly — a brightly colored fly, Anastrepha ludens, whose larvae are a serious pest chiefly of citrus fruits and mangoes in Mexico, Central America, and southern Texas.
- miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
- misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
- mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
- multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
- multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
- multiple factors — polygene.
- non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- nonmanufacturing — (economics) Outside of the manufacturing sector.
- out of your mind — If you say that someone is out of their mind, you mean that they are mad or very foolish.
- outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
- reference number — a unique number on an order, application, etc, used to designate and quickly locate that order, application, etc
- self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
- sulfarsphenamine — a yellow, water-soluble, arsenic-containing powder, C 1 4 H 1 4 As 2 N 2 Na 2 O 8 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of syphilis.
- texture modifier — a substance that is added to food products to increase viscosity
- tomato fruitworm — corn earworm.
- unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- unfair dismissal — wrongful firing from a job
- unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
- uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
- union-of-myanmar — Union of, official name of Burma.
- women's suffrage — right of adult females to vote