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14-letter words containing a, f, i, r, m, t

  • friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
  • friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell
  • make free with — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microsoft mail — (messaging, tool)   (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • mittag-leffler — Magnus Gösta [mahng-nuhs yœ-stah] /ˈmɑŋ nʌs ˈyœ stɑ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1927, Swedish mathematician.
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
  • multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
  • mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
  • myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
  • neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • noninformation — an absence or lack of information
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
  • patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
  • printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
  • quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
  • re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
  • soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • tenant farming — farming land owned by sb else
  • traffic-jammed — jam1 (def 16).
  • transformation — the act or process of transforming.
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