11-letter words containing l, e, m
- extended ml — A language by Don Sannella of the University of Edinburgh combining algebraic specification and functional programming.
- externalism — Excessive regard for outward form in religion.
- extra-mural — Extra-mural courses are courses at a college or university which are taken mainly by part-time students.
- false alarm — a false report of a fire in progress to a fire department.
- familiarise — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family life — life with one's family; the part of one's life concerned with one's family
- family name — the hereditary surname of a family.
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- fellermelad — (jocular, UK, Ireland, usually with
- felt marker — a felt pen with a wide nib for making identifying marks, as on clothing.
- fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- 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.
- filled milk — milk containing a substitute for the butterfat.
- film camera — a camera for taking moving pictures for a cinema film
- filmsetting — photocomposition.
- filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- fire temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
- firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- flame color — bright reddish-orange.
- flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
- flammulated — reddish in colour
- 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.
- flea market — a market, often outdoors, consisting of a number of individual stalls selling old or used articles, curios and antiques, cut-rate merchandise, etc.
- 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.
- flimflammed — Simple past tense and past participle of flimflam.
- flimflammer — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- flittermice — Plural form of flittermouset, an Alternative spelling of flitter-mouse.
- flooded gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of Australia, esp Eucalyptus saligna (the Sydney blue gum), that grow in damp soil
- floor model — a radio, television set, or other furnishing or appliance intended to stand on the floor rather than on a table; console.
- florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
- flumadiddle — utter nonsense.
- fluorimeter — fluorometer.
- fluorometer — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- 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
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.