13-letter words containing f, a, p, i
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
- profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- prolification — the production of offspring
- pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
- referred pain — pain felt in an area remote from the site of origin.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
- soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
- special offer — bargain
- special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
- specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
- specification — the act of specifying.
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- staff captain — a person who assists the master of a large ocean passenger vessel, being especially responsible for safety apparatus, fire and lifeboat drills, etc.
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- under pain of — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- unspecifiable — not able to be specified
- unsuperficial — external or outward: a superficial resemblance.
- visual foxpro — (database) A Microsoft database derived from Fox Software's FoxPRO.
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
- wife swapping — sexual activity in which two or more married couples exchange partners.
- wildlife park — animal reserve
- yuppification — The act or process of yuppifying.
- zip fastening — a fastener in the form of a zip