9-letter words containing f, a, p, i
- lapidific — involved in or relating to the process of changing into stone
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- pacificae — documents of introduction presented by the Christian Church
- pacifical — having an appeasing nature
- painfully — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- pan-fried — Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
- paraffine — paraffin.
- paraffiny — of, relating to, or characteristic of paraffin; covered with or smelling of paraffin
- pass-fail — a system of grading in some educational institutions in which a student simply passes or fails instead of receiving a letter or numerical grade.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pea rifle — a small rifle
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pedatifid — (of a plant leaf) pedately divided, with the divisions less deep than in a pedate leaf
- picofarad — one trillionth of a farad. Abbreviation: pF.
- pie-faced — having a broad, flat face and, sometimes, a vacuous or stupid expression.
- pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
- plan file — (operating system) On Unix systems that support finger, the ".plan" file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near-future plans, but has been turned almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a sig block). See also Hacking X for Y. A later innovation in plan files was the introduction of "scrolling plan files" which are one-dimensional animations made using only the printable ASCII character set, carriage return and line feed, avoiding terminal specific escape sequences, since the finger command will (for security reasons; see letterbomb) not pass the escape character. Scrolling .plan files have become art forms in miniature, and some sites have started competitions to find who can create the longest running, funniest, and most original animations. A compiler (ASP) is available on Usenet for producing them. Typical animation components include: See also twirling baton.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
- poliakoff — Stephen. born 1952, British playwright and film director; work includes the stage plays Breaking the Silence (1984) and Blinded by the Sun (1996) and the television serials The Lost Prince (2003), Friends and Crocodiles (2005), and Dancing on the Edge (2013)
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- rainproof — impervious to rain; keeping out or unaffected by rain: a rainproof cover; a rainproof coat.
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
- unpainful — not causing or characterized by pain; painless
- vaporific — producing vapor; tending to form vapor.
- whipstaff — a bar attached to a ship's tiller to assist with steering
- wing flap — a control flap on the wing of an aeroplane