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18-letter words containing f, c, p

  • incapacity benefit — (in Britain) a regular government payment made to people who are unable to work for an extended period through disability
  • influence peddling — the use of power or influence on someone else's behalf in return for money or favours
  • inspector of taxes — an official of HMRC whose work is to assess individuals' income tax liability
  • magnetic amplifier — an amplifier that applies the input signal to a primary winding and feeds an alternating current to a secondary winding where this current is modulated by the variations in the primary winding.
  • make a practice of — be in the habit of
  • may flower compact — an agreement to establish a government, entered into by the Pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620.
  • medical profession — the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
  • metamorphic facies — Geology. a group of metamorphic rock units characterized by particular mineralogic associations.
  • mexican fire-plant — a showy plant, Euphorbia heterophylla, of the spurge family, growing in the central U.S. to central South America, having red or mottled red and white bracts.
  • mezzo-soprano clef — a C clef locating middle C on the line next to the lowest line of the staff.
  • misplaced modifier — Grammar. a word, phrase, or clause that seems to refer to or modify an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence, as when young in When young, circuses appeal to all of us.
  • multiflow computer — (company)   A now-defunct computer company, best known for its work in Very Long Instruction Word processors. Address: New Haven, Conn. USA.
  • pair of spectacles — a score of 0 in each innings of a match
  • paper handkerchief — a handkerchief made from tissue paper
  • par for the course — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
  • particulate filter — A particulate filter is a filter to remove particles that are present the air, for example in the exhaust of a diesel engine.
  • peacekeeping force — a force designated to the maintenance of peace, esp the prevention of further fighting between hostile forces in an area
  • pedestrian traffic — the people coming and going on foot in a street, town, etc
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • perceptual defence — the process by which it is thought that certain stimuli are either not perceived or are distorted due to their offensive, unpleasant, or threatening nature
  • percussion flaking — a method of forming a flint tool by striking flakes from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone or wood.
  • perfect continuous — perfect progressive.
  • perfect contrition — sincere penitence or remorse.
  • perfect participle — past participle.
  • perforated tracery — tracery, as in early Gothic architecture, formed of cut or pierced slabs of stone set on edge with the flat side outward.
  • performance artist — an artist that is involved in a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc
  • phenol coefficient — the number indicating the effectiveness of a disinfectant as a germicide relative to phenol, which is arbitrarily assigned the number 1: based on the time required to kill a given quantity of a specific type of bacteria.
  • pick of the litter — objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
  • piecewise function — a function whose definition changes depending on the value of the independent variable
  • pilotless aircraft — an aircraft equipped for operation by radio or by robot control, without a human pilot aboard; drone.
  • plane of incidence — a plane determined by a given ray, incident on a surface, and the normal at the point where the incident ray strikes the surface.
  • play second fiddle — be considered less important
  • point of reference — A point of reference is something which you use to help you understand a situation or communicate with someone.
  • political football — a political issue that is continually debated but has not yet been resolved
  • pontifical college — the chief body of priests in ancient Rome.
  • prefect of studies — a senior master in a Jesuit school or college
  • prince of darkness — Satan.
  • process identifier — (operating system)   (PID) An integer used by the Unix kernel to uniquely identify a process. PIDs are returned by the fork system call and can be passed to wait() or kill() to perform actions on the given process.
  • product life cycle — the four stages (introduction, growth, maturity, and decline) into one of which the sales of a product fall during its market life
  • protein deficiency — a lack or insuffiency of protein
  • provably difficult — The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no polynomial-time algorithm exists, only exponential-time algorithms.
  • purchasing officer — the member of staff in an organization who is responsible for buying goods or products
  • put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
  • rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
  • reinforced plastic — plastic with fibrous matter, such as carbon fibre, embedded in it to confer additional strength
  • repeat performance — sth done again
  • reproduction proof — repro proof.
  • richard p. feynman — (person, computing, architecture)   /fayn'mn/ 1918-1988. A US physicist, computer scientist and author who graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton. Feynmane was a key figure in helping Oppenheimer and team develop atomic bomb. In 1950 he became a professor at Caltech and in 1965 became Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics for QED (quantum electrodynamics). He was a primary figure in "solving" the Challenger disaster O-ring problem. He "rediscovered" the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Tuva. The 2001 film "Infinity" about Feynman's early life featured Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette. In 2001, "QED", a play about Feynman's life featuring Alan Alda opened.
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • self-comprehending — to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
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