8-letter words containing r, i, m
- fabiform — Shaped like a bean.
- fairmont — a city in W West Virginia.
- fairydom — The realm or sphere of fairies.
- fairyism — fairylike quality.
- fakirism — the beliefs and practices of fakirs
- familiar — well-acquainted; thoroughly conversant: to be familiar with a subject.
- faradism — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- farmgirl — A girl or young woman who works on a farm.
- farmwife — the wife of a farmer
- fermions — Plural form of fermion.
- fibromas — Plural form of fibroma.
- filiform — threadlike; filamentous.
- fillmore — Millard [mil-erd] /ˈmɪl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1800–74, 13th president of the United States 1850–53.
- filmcard — microfiche.
- filmgoer — a person who attends motion-picture showings.
- filmstar — Alternative spelling of film star.
- fimbriae — Often, fimbriae. Botany, Zoology. a fringe or fringed border.
- fimbrial — Of or pertaining to the fimbriae.
- finnmark — the markka of Finland.
- firearms — Plural form of firearm.
- firebomb — an explosive device with incendiary effects.
- firedamp — a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
- firemark — a plaque mounted on the outside of a building indicating the insurance company by which that building is insured
- fireroom — a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.
- fireworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Rhopobota naevana (black-headed fireworm) which feeds on the leaves of cranberries and causes them to wither.
- firmless — unstable, unsteady, not firmly fixed
- firmness — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- firmware — a microprogram stored in ROM, designed to implement a function that had previously been provided in software.
- fishworm — an earthworm.
- flimsier — Comparative form of flimsy.
- fomorian — one of a race of pirates or sea demons who raided and pillaged Ireland but were finally defeated: sometimes associated with the hostile powers of nature.
- foramina — an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.
- forelimb — a front limb of an animal.
- foremilk — colostrum.
- foretime — former or past time; the past.
- formalin — a clear, colorless, aqueous solution of 40 percent formaldehyde.
- framekit — (language) A frame language.
- framings — Plural form of framing.
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- freemium — a sales strategy, especially on the Internet, in which the basic product or service is free, but customers are charged for additional features and content.
- fremitus — palpable vibration, as of the walls of the chest.
- friedman — Bruce Jay, born 1930, U.S. novelist.
- frienemy — Alternative form of frenemy.
- frimaire — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the third month of the year, extending from November 21 to December 20.
- frumpily — In a frumpy manner.
- frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- fujimori — Alberto, born 1938, president of Peru 1990–2000.
- fumarium — A smoke chamber used in Ancient Rome to enhance the flavor of wine.
- fumitory — any plant of the genus Fumaria, especially a delicate herb, F. officinalis, having finely dissected, grayish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers.
- fusarium — any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.