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14-letter words containing f, l, p

  • film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
  • fingerspelling — the communication in sign language of a word or other expression by rendering its written form letter by letter in a manual alphabet.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flanders poppy — corn poppy.
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • flight capital — funds transferred abroad in order to avoid high taxes or to provide for a person's needs if flight from the country becomes necessary
  • flip one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • floating point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
  • floating-point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
  • floor planning — a system of financing that permits a dealer to borrow money to buy goods, which become the security for the loan that is repaid when the merchandise is sold.
  • floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
  • fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
  • fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • follow-up call — a telephone call made as a follow-up to a letter, fax, meeting, etc
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • foot patrolman — a policeman assigned to patrol a particular area on foot
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
  • fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
  • frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • 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.
  • funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
  • 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.
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • 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
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • 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
  • hopfield model — Hopfield network
  • horn of plenty — cornucopia.
  • hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
  • 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
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