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13-letter words containing f, e, p, i

  • imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
  • in despite of — in spite of
  • in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
  • in respect of — with regard, with reference
  • in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
  • in-capable of — not capable.
  • infinite loop — (programming)   (Or "endless loop") Where a piece of program is executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a bug, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an embedded system which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some operating system kernels following a panic. A program executing an infinite loop is said to spin or buzz forever and goes catatonic. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also black hole, recursion, infinite loop.
  • infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
  • interspecific — existing or occurring between species.
  • intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
  • kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
  • leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
  • longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
  • mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
  • microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
  • nonperforming — not performing well or properly.
  • nonproficient — Not proficient.
  • nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • pacific ocean — an ocean bordered by the American continents, Asia, and Australia: largest ocean in the world; divided by the equator into the North Pacific and the South Pacific. 70,000,000 sq. mi. (181,300,000 sq. km); greatest known depth, 35,433 feet (10,800 meters).
  • pacific plate — Geology. one of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four sea-floor basins; separated from the Nazca, Cocos, and North and South American plates by the East Pacific Rise and San Andreas fault and bounded in the western Pacific Ocean by a series of major ocean deeps, including the Kuril, Japan, Mariana, Kermadec, and Tonga trenches.
  • palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
  • paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • patent office — (often initial capital letters) a governmental agency that administers and regulates patents and trademarks, in the U.S. forming a division of the Department of Commerce.
  • paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  • peace of mind — reassurance
  • peace officer — a civil officer appointed to preserve the public peace, as a sheriff or constable.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
  • perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
  • perfectionate — to perfect; to make perfect
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perl profiler — (tool)   (pprof) A tool by Anthony Iano-Fletcher of Nottingham University, UK to profile, and collate data from, Perl scripts. Version: 1? Source posted on comp.lang.perl in mid-June 1993.
  • petrification — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
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