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10-letter words containing f, a, p

  • flagperson — A gender-neutral term for someone who uses a flag, especially as a form of signalling.
  • flame lamp — a filament lamp in which the bulb resembles the shape of a flame
  • flameproof — resisting the effect of flames; not readily ignited or burned by flames.
  • flap valve — clack valve.
  • flapdoodle — nonsense; bosh.
  • flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • flapperish — in the style of a flapper
  • flare path — an airstrip illuminated for use at night or in bad weather
  • flash lamp — a lamp for providing momentary illumination of the subject of a photograph.
  • flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
  • fleahopper — either of two varieties of small, jumping insects which feed on crops and garden plants. The two main varieties are the garden fleahopper Halticus bractatus and the cotton fleahopper Pseudatomoscelis seriatus
  • flick-pass — a movement in which the ball is passed quickly to another player by flicking it out of the hand; often performed with only one hand
  • flight cap — a wedge-shaped cap of cotton or woolen fabric, worn as part of the service uniform.
  • flight pay — a pay supplement allowed by the U.S. Air Force to certain crew members who attain a minimum flight time per month.
  • flip chart — a set of sheets, as of cardboard or paper, hinged at the top so that they can be flipped over to show information or illustrations in sequence.
  • flippantly — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
  • floatplane — a seaplane having landing gear consisting of one or more floats.
  • flood lamp — a floodlight.
  • floodlamps — Plural form of floodlamp.
  • floodplain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
  • floor lamp — a tall lamp designed to stand on the floor.
  • floor plan — a diagram of one room, apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale.
  • flop sweat — a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment
  • flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
  • flurazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 21 H 23 ClFN 3 O, used in its hydrochloride form as a sedative and hypnotic in the management of insomnia and to alleviate anxiety states.
  • food stamp — any of the coupons sold or given under a federal program to eligible needy persons and redeemable for food at designated grocery stores or markets.
  • fool's cap — a traditional jester's cap or hood, often multicolored and usually having several drooping peaks from which bells are hung.
  • footplates — Plural form of footplate.
  • forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
  • force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
  • forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
  • fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
  • forepassed — already in the past; bygone.
  • foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
  • fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
  • fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
  • frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
  • frangipani — a perfume prepared from or imitating the odor of the flower of a tropical American tree or shrub, Plumeria rubra, of the dogbane family.
  • franz lisp — (language)   A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
  • frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
  • free space — unused memory or storage
  • front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
  • frying pan — A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.
  • frying-pan — a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
  • funnel cap — any of various basidiomycetous fungi of the genus Clitocybe, characterized by the funnel-shaped caps and, usually, markedly decurrent gills
  • grape fern — any of several ferns of the genus Botrychium, comprising several species having grapelike clusters of sporangia.
  • grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
  • half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
  • half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
  • half-plane — the part of the plane on one side of a straight line of infinite length in the plane.
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