12-letter words containing m, a, f, i, o
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
- 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.
- formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
- formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
- formula milk — An artificial substitute for breast milk intended for feeding infants. It can come in powdered form to be mixed with water or in instant liquid form.
- formula unit — (of an ionic compound that does not form molecules, as most salts) the chemical formula with the least number of elements out of the set of empirical formulas having the same proportion of ions as elements: NaCl is the formula unit for the ionic compound sodium chloride.
- formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
- formularizer — One who formularizes.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fort laramie — a city in SE Wyoming.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fort william — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
- frontiersman — 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).
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- fulminations — Plural form of fulmination.
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- furocoumarin — psoralen.
- gamification — the process of turning an activity or task into a game or something resembling a game: Teachers can use gamification to motivate their students.
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- humification — the formation of humus.
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
- impatient of — not willing to bear or tolerate
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
- inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
- inflammation — Pathology. redness, swelling, pain, tenderness, heat, and disturbed function of an area of the body, especially as a reaction of tissues to injurious agents.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationism — the policy or practice of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- informercial — infomercial.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- infotainment — edutainment.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- joint family — a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.