10-letter words containing t, e, m, f
- feministic — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- femtometer — fermi. Symbol: fm.
- femtometre — 10-15 of a metre. Symbol: fm.
- fermenters — Plural form of fermenter.
- fermenting — Present participle of ferment.
- fermentive — tending to cause fermentation
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- field mint — an herb, Mentha arvensis, of North America, having downy leaves and small flowers that grow in circles in the leaf axils.
- field term — a university term spent in the field, such as a term spent in another country as part of a foreign language course
- filamented — Of or relating to a filament; having filaments; filamentous.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- firemaster — (Scotland) The chief of a fire brigade.
- firestorms — Plural form of firestorm.
- firmaments — Plural form of firmament.
- firmicutes — Plural form of firmicute.
- first mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the captain.
- first name — given or Christian name
- first-come — arranged, considered, or done in order of application or arrival, as for purposes of service: orders filled on a first-come basis.
- first-name — of or relating to one's first, or given, name; familiar; intimate: They were on a first-name basis soon after meeting.
- first-time — used, appearing, contending, etc., for the first time: a first-time candidate.
- firstcomer — a person who arrives first or among the first.
- flame bait — (messaging) A Usenet posting or other message intended to trigger a flame war, or one that invites flames in reply.
- flame test — a test for detecting the presence of certain metals in compounds by the coloration they give to a flame. Sodium, for example, turns a flame yellow
- flame tree — either of two trees, Brachychiton acerifolius or B. australis, native to Australia, having clusters of bright scarlet flowers.
- fleechment — flattery; cajolery; coaxing
- flesh meat — the meat of birds or of animals other than fish, clams, etc., used as food
- flour mite — any of several mites that infest flour and other stored organic materials and may be a serious pest; some may cause itching in persons handling infected material
- flowmeters — Plural form of flowmeter.
- flutemouth — any of several fish with a tubular snout
- foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
- foremostly — In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
- foremother — a female ancestor.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- foretopmen — Plural form of foretopman.
- formaliter — formally
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formatters — Plural form of formatter.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- formulated — Simple past tense and past participle of formulate.
- formulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formulate.
- fort meigs — Fort. Fort Meigs.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- fragmental — fragmentary.
- fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- frame rate — (graphics) The number of frames of an animation which are displayed every second, measured in frames per second (fps). The higher the frame rate, the smoother the animation will appear but the more processing power and system bandwidth is required. At less than 30 fps, the human eye can see the new pictures coming onto the screen.
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.
- fremescent — rumbling; beginning to roar