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

  • petty official — a minor official in government, etc
  • phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
  • picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • pontifications — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
  • postfix syntax — postfix notation
  • potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
  • 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.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • profit warning — a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected
  • profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
  • public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
  • public welfare — state aid to the poor
  • rip-off artist — a person who steals, cheats or swindles
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • 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-deposit — safe-deposit.
  • saponification — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-appraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
  • snap out of it — return quickly to normal
  • spearfisherman — a person who engages in spearfishing.
  • special effect — Usually, special effects. a video or audio illusion in film or other media, created with computer-generated images, prosthetic makeup, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • special forces — crack military team
  • spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
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