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

  • gift receipt — A gift receipt shows proof of purchase but leaves out the amount spent. It can be used to return goods given as a gift.
  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
  • high-profile — prominent publicly
  • hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
  • 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.
  • imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
  • imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
  • imperforable — not able to be perforated
  • imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
  • imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
  • imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
  • 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.
  • jeffrey pine — a conifer, Pinus jeffreyi, of high mountains in the western U.S., having long needles, large cones, and aromatic bark.
  • kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
  • 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.
  • microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
  • oversimplify — make too simple
  • pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
  • paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
  • parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • 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
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
  • perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
  • perfectivize — to make perfective.
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
  • performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
  • perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
  • pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
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