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

  • pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
  • paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
  • parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
  • 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
  • platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
  • platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • 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.
  • processor farm — (computer, parallel)   A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
  • 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 .
  • quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
  • 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.
  • re-familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reference mark — Surveying. a permanent mark set at a specific distance in a specific direction from a survey station so as to permit accurate reestablishment of the station.
  • reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
  • reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
  • remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
  • safety measure — a measure taken to increase or ensure safety or protection from danger
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • sea of marmara — a deep inland sea in NW Turkey, linked with the Black Sea by the Bosporus and with the Aegean by the Dardanelles: separates Turkey in Europe from Turkey in Asia. Area: 11 471 sq km (4429 sq miles)
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • 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.
  • self-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • 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
  • somar software — (company)   The distributors of Somar DumpAcl and other utilities for Windows NT. Address: Washington, DC, USA.
  • space platform — space station.
  • spearfisherman — a person who engages in spearfishing.
  • spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • springform pan — a metal cake pan with sides that can be unfastened to facilitate releasing the cake when done.
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • take away from — detract
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