12-letter words containing f, c, p
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
- fuddling cup — an English earthenware drinking vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, having the form of a cluster of three or more cups communicating at their bottoms in such a way that the entire vessel can be drained from any of them.
- gift receipt — A gift receipt shows proof of purchase but leaves out the amount spent. It can be used to return goods given as a gift.
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- hypofunction — abnormally diminished function, especially of glands or other organs.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- incapable of — not allowing or admitting; not able to accept or experience
- indo-pacific — of or relating to the areas of the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of SE Asia.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
- misspecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- non-specific — Non-specific medical conditions or symptoms have more than one possible cause.
- note-perfect — (of a singer or musician) able to sing or play without making any errors
- off the pace — behind the leader; out of first place
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- office space — part of a building for business use
- optical diff — vdiff
- out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pacific time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- pacification — to pacify.
- pack of lies — false account
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
- panification — the making of bread
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- past perfect — pluperfect.
- patent cliff — a potential sharp drop in sales and revenue for a company when one of its patents expires: the looming patent cliffs faced by pharmaceutical firms.
- peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
- perfect ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.