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12-letter words containing f, a, p, i

  • imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
  • in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
  • incapable of — not allowing or admitting; not able to accept or experience
  • indo-pacific — of or relating to the areas of the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of SE Asia.
  • infant apnea — a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
  • infographics — Plural form of infographic.
  • isapi filter — (web)   A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
  • landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
  • maple family — the plant family Aceraceae, typified by trees and shrubs having sweet sap, simple opposite leaves usually lobed or toothed, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a double-winged nutlet, and including maples and the box elder.
  • office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
  • office space — part of a building for business use
  • oil platform — An oil platform is a structure that is used when getting oil from the ground under the sea.
  • optical diff — vdiff
  • pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
  • pacific time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • pacification — to pacify.
  • pack of lies — false account
  • palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • panification — the making of bread
  • paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
  • paraffin-oil — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • patent cliff — a potential sharp drop in sales and revenue for a company when one of its patents expires: the looming patent cliffs faced by pharmaceutical firms.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
  • performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
  • phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
  • piece of ass — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
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