say it: FEE-muh
fema is a noun meaning "an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities". It carries one recorded sense.
an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fema come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.