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12-letter words containing f, i, p, r

  • price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • price freeze — temporary fixing of prices
  • price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
  • prison fever — typhus.
  • private life — the social or family life or personal relationships of an individual, esp of a person in the public eye, such as a politician or celebrity
  • prizefighter — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
  • pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
  • professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
  • proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
  • profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
  • profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
  • prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
  • purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
  • purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
  • putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
  • pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
  • redispose of — to dispose of again
  • rs flip-flop — SR flip-flop
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • scorpionfish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
  • self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
  • slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
  • soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
  • soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
  • space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
  • spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
  • sr flip-flop — (hardware)   (Or "RS flip-flop") A "set/reset" flip-flop in which activating the "S" input will switch it to one stable state and activating the "R" input will switch it to the other state. The outputs of a basic SR flip-flop change whenever its R or S inputs change appropriately. A clocked SR flip-flop has an extra clock input which enables or disables the other two inputs. When they are disabled the outputs remain constant. If we connect two clocked SR flip-flops so that the Q and /Q outputs of the first, "master" flip-flop drive the S and R inputs of the second, "slave" flip-flop, and we drive the slave's clock input with an inverted version of the master's clock, then we have an edge-triggered RS flip-flop. The external R and S inputs of this device are latched on one edge (transition) of the clock (e.g. the falling edge) and the outputs will only change on the next opposite (rising) edge. If both R and S inputs are active (when enabled), a race condition occurs and the outputs will be in an indeterminate state. A JK flip-flop avoids this possibility.
  • stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • taper relief — (in Britain) a system of relief from capital gains tax under which the percentage of a chargeable gain considered taxable is reduced for each whole year (from April 1998) that the asset was held by the vendor
  • to open fire — If you open fire on someone, you start shooting at them.
  • to play fair — If you say that someone plays fair, you mean that they behave or act in a reasonable and honest way.
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