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11-letter words containing t, e, m, f

  • farm-sitter — a person who takes temporary charge of a farm during the absence or incapacity of the owner.
  • farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
  • father time — the personification of time as an old man, usually in a white robe, having a white beard, and carrying a scythe.
  • felt marker — a felt pen with a wide nib for making identifying marks, as on clothing.
  • feme covert — a married woman.
  • femtosecond — One quadrillionth of a second.
  • fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
  • ferrimagnet — (physics) Any ferrimagnetic material.
  • ferrocement — (of a boat hull) constructed of mortar troweled over a wire mesh that has been preshaped over a mold.
  • ferromagnet — a ferromagnetic substance.
  • fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
  • filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
  • fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
  • fire master — (in Scotland) the person in charge of a fire brigade
  • fire temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
  • firemasters — Plural form of firemaster.
  • firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
  • first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
  • first-timer — a person who does, experiences, or attends something for the first time.
  • fish market — a market selling fish
  • flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
  • flammulated — reddish in colour
  • flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
  • flea market — a market, often outdoors, consisting of a number of individual stalls selling old or used articles, curios and antiques, cut-rate merchandise, etc.
  • fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
  • flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
  • flittermice — Plural form of flittermouset, an Alternative spelling of flitter-mouse.
  • fluorimeter — fluorometer.
  • fluorometer — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
  • fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
  • flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
  • flusterment — the state of being flustered
  • flying time — the amount of time taken in flying in an aircraft from one place to another
  • fomentation — encouragement of discord, rebellion, etc.; instigation.
  • fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
  • foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
  • forage mite — a mite normally occurring in forage but sometimes infesting the skin of mammals, esp horses, and birds
  • foraminated — porous; perforated with small holes
  • foremastman — a sailor positioned before the foremast
  • foremothers — Plural form of foremother.
  • forepayment — prepayment
  • foretopmast — (nautical) The mast above the foretop.
  • form letter — a standardized letter that can be sent to any number of persons, occasionally personalized by inserting the name of each recipient in the salutation.
  • form master — a teacher or member of a school's staff designated as being in charge of a certain form
  • formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
  • fort monroe — Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
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