English Words: F

Of or relating to Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665), French mathematician.

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

The condition of being fermentable

Able to ferment or be fermented.

fermentative

Synonym of prozymite.

To cause to ferment

Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide

Relating to fermentation.

Of, pertaining to, causing or undergoing fermentation.

In a fermentative manner

The property of being fermentative.

simple past and past participle of ferment

Any organism, such as a yeast, that causes fermentation.

third-person singular simple present indicative of ferment

Alternative form of fermental.

The collection of products of a fermentation

The vessel in which fermentation takes place

Alternative form of frumenty.

The mechanism for closing the breech of a breech-loading firearm, in artillery consisting principally of the breechblock, obturator, and carrier ring.

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

An obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10⁻¹⁵ m).

A region of the galaxy, rich in gamma rays, thought to be caused by the central supermassive black hole.

The highest energy of a particle that is part of a many-particle system of identical fermions in its ground state.

The seeming contradiction, serving as a challenge to believers in the existence of advanced lifeforms throughout the universe, that there is no scientific evidence that extraterrestrial civilizations have tried to visit or communicate with Earth.

Any estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis or the approximation of extreme scientific calculations: often a back-of-the-envelope problem with limited data.

An abstract boundary, of constant energy, useful for predicting the thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of metals, semimetals, and doped semiconductors.

A kind of quantum statistics that applies to the physics of a system consisting of many noninteracting identical particles that obey the Pauli exclusion principle.

Of or relating to the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi (1901–1954).

The study of the configuration (shape and size) of Fermi surfaces.

Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark;

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.

In terms of, or by means of, fermions.

The theoretical treatment of a system as one of fermions.

To treat a system as if it were composed of fermions

Subject to fermionization

Having some characteristics of a fermion.

A transuranic chemical element (symbol Fm) with an atomic number of 100.

Prepared in a simple rustic style.

A hexagonal-dipyramidal mineral containing arsenic, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and strontium.

An inland town in east County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 8098).

Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.

An upscale bar or tavern catering to single yuppies, usually decorated with ferns or other greenery.

A Scottish confection consisting of a small round iced cake with a chocolate fern traced on top.

A type of greenhouse or shadehouse for growing ferns.

One of the asexual, dustlike spores of a fern which resemble seeds.

A patrilineal surname from Spanish.

Synonym of Bube (“a Bantu language”).

Pertaining to Fernando

A monoclinic-prismatic dark green mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.