12-letter words containing o, f, m, a
- false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- farm to fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
- farm-to-fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
- fata morgana — Meteorology. a mirage consisting of multiple images, as of cliffs and buildings, that are distorted and magnified to resemble elaborate castles, often seen near the Straits of Messina.
- fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- fearsomeness — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- 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.
- feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
- feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
- fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
- fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
- flameproofer — any agent which renders something flameproof
- flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flammulation — a small flame-shaped marking, esp those seen on some birds
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flood damage — damage to property caused by floodwater
- floor sample — an appliance, piece of furniture, or other article of merchandise that has been used for display or demonstration and is usually offered at a reduced price.
- floor-manage — to act as or in the manner of a floor manager.
- florida moss — Spanish moss.
- florida room — a sunroom.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- foamed metal — a uniform foamlike metal structure produced when hydrogen bubbles are evolved from metal hydrides uniformly dispersed throughout a host metal or metal alloy: used as a structural material because of its shock-absorbing properties and light weight.
- fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
- 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.
- 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.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- 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.
- forasmuch as — since
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.