12-letter words containing f, i, l, p
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- incapable of — not allowing or admitting; not able to accept or experience
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- jk flip-flop — (hardware) An edge triggered SR flip-flop with extra logic such that only one of the R and S inputs is enabled at any time. This prevents a race condition which can occur when both inputs of an RS flip-flop are active at the same time. In a JK flip-flop the R and S inputs are renamed J and K. The set input (J) is only enabled when the flip-flop is reset and K when it is set. If both J and K inputs are held active then the outputs will change ("togle") on each falling edge of the clock. JK flip-flops can be used to build a binary counter with a reset input.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
- life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
- maple family — the plant family Aceraceae, typified by trees and shrubs having sweet sap, simple opposite leaves usually lobed or toothed, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a double-winged nutlet, and including maples and the box elder.
- offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
- oil platform — An oil platform is a structure that is used when getting oil from the ground under the sea.
- optical diff — vdiff
- oversimplify — make too simple
- pack of lies — false account
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
- pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
- paraffin-oil — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
- 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.
- 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
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
- photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
- pilfer-proof — (of a supply, stock, container, etc) protected from or not susceptible to pilfering
- pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- police force — police (def 1).
- poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
- pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
- powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.