12-letter words containing i, m, e
- first-termer — a person serving his or her first term, as a member of the U.S. Congress.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
- fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
- fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flegenheimer — Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") 1902–35, U.S. gangster.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- flimflammery — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flummadiddle — A baked main course pudding consisting of stale bread, pork fat, molasses, and spices including cinnamon and allspice. It was a part of early American cuisine, especially in New England.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- flutter mill — a flutter wheel, especially a small one designed as a child's plaything.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
- for all time — forever, for eternity
- foraminifera — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
- formularizer — One who formularizes.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- fort laramie — a city in SE Wyoming.
- fragmentized — fragmented.
- franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
- freedom ride — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
- freezer film — a thin polythene material used to wrap food that is to be frozen
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).