14-letter words containing f, a, p, i
- floor planning — a system of financing that permits a dealer to borrow money to buy goods, which become the security for the loan that is repaid when the merchandise is sold.
- flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- football pitch — ground where soccer is played
- fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- fraternity pin — a pin worn on clothing that indicates membership in a fraternity
- free companion — a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.
- free expansion — the expansion of a gas into an evacuated space without the transfer of heat or the performance of work.
- friar preacher — a Dominican friar.
- friday prayers — the congregational prayers observed by Muslims every Friday
- frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- half-lap joint — a joint between two timbers halved together so that a flush surface results.
- half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
- happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- infralapsarian — a person who believes in infralapsarianism.
- intrafallopian — occurring within either of the Fallopian tubes
- jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
- keep the faith — stay true to beliefs
- keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- pacific salmon — any salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, especially the chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha.
- pacifistically — from a pacifistic point of view
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
- paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
- parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
- parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
- parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
- partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- party official — an official of a political party
- passive safety — the practice of taking measures to reduce the consequences of accidents, as opposed to attempting to avoid them altogether
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- performability — the quality of being performable