11-letter words containing f, l, a, p
- fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- free sample — taster of sth offered at no charge
- ftp by mail — A service offered by DEC to allow people without Internet access to get copies of files which are available by anonymous FTP. Send a message with just the word "help" in the body to <[email protected]>.
- funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
- half asleep — in or into a state of sleep: He fell asleep quickly.
- half-asleep — in or into a state of sleep: He fell asleep quickly.
- half-duplex — of or relating to the transmission of information in opposite directions but not simultaneously.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- knife pleat — a sharply creased narrow pleat, usually one of a series folded in the same direction.
- kulturkampf — the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments.
- ladderproof — unable to ladder; resistant against undoing (of a line of interconnected stitches) as by snagging
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- lapilliform — shaped like a pebble
- laser proof — a print proof of an element of a page printed out on a laser printer, so as to give an almost accurate preview of the final printout
- leaf peeper — a tourist who visits New England in autumn to see the changing colours of the foliage
- leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
- leaf-hopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- leapfrogger — One who leapfrogs.
- lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
- naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
- no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
- pacifically — peaceably, mildly, calmly, or quietly.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- pain relief — techniques concerned with preventing or reducing pain
- palm family — the plant family Palmae (or Arecaceae; formerly, Palmaceae), characterized by chiefly tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having large compound leaves in featherlike or fanlike fronds, large clusters of small flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the palmettos, ornamental palms, and palms that are the source of carnauba wax, coconuts, dates, raffia, rattan, sago, and various oils.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- papilliform — resembling a papilla.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- parfocalize — to make parfocal
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- pine family — the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genus Cedrus), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.
- pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.