12-letter words containing m, e, t, r
- extremophile — A microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity, or chemical concentration.
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
- feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
- feature film — full-length movie
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- fermat prime — (mathematics) A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
- fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
- first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- first-termer — a person serving his or her first term, as a member of the U.S. Congress.
- fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
- flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorometers — Plural form of fluorometer.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- flutter mill — a flutter wheel, especially a small one designed as a child's plaything.
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- for all time — forever, for eternity
- fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- foretopmasts — Plural form of foretopmast.
- forex market — short for
- fort laramie — a city in SE Wyoming.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- fragmentally — fragmentary.
- fragmentized — fragmented.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- front matter — all material in a book that precedes the text proper, as the title page, copyright page, table of contents, dedication, and preface.
- 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).
- fruit farmer — somebody who farms or grows fruit
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- gamboge tree — any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, esp G. hanburyi, that yield this resin: family Clusiaceae
- games master — a man who teaches games and sports in a school
- gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
- garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
- garnishments — Plural form of garnishment.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.