14-letter words containing f, i, p
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
- give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- half-lap joint — a joint between two timbers halved together so that a flush surface results.
- half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
- happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- hopfield model — Hopfield network
- hyper-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- hyperefficient — more efficient than normal
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- in/out of step — If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.
- independent of — without the support of
- indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
- infralapsarian — a person who believes in infralapsarianism.
- intrafallopian — occurring within either of the Fallopian tubes
- jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
- keep the faith — stay true to beliefs
- keep the field — to continue activity, as in games or military operations
- keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
- life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
- life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
- nonproficiency — absence or lack of proficiency.
- nonspecificity — The state or condition of being nonspecific.
- not-for-profit — nonprofit.
- of the opinion — If someone is of the opinion that something is the case, that is what they believe.
- offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
- openoffice.org — (project) (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
- opinion former — Opinion formers are people who have a lot of influence over what the public thinks about things.
- opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
- out of spirits — sad; depressed
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- pacific salmon — any salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, especially the chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha.
- pacifistically — from a pacifistic point of view
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
- paradigm shift — a dramatic change in the paradigm of a scientific community, or a change from one scientific paradigm to another.
- parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
- parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
- parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.