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15-letter words containing f, o, i, p

  • a piece of cake — If you think something is very easy to do, you can say it is a piece of cake. People often say this to stop someone feeling worried about doing something they have to do.
  • antishoplifting — designed to prevent shoplifting
  • applesoft basic — (language)   A version of BASIC for Apple computers.
  • arch of triumph — Arc de Triomphe.
  • at the point of — very close to; on the verge of
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • baptism of fire — If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.
  • be spoiling for — to have an aggressive desire for (a fight, etc)
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • bit-mapped font — a computer font whose characters are held in memory as series of dots.
  • capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • chief of police — (in the US) the head of a regional or municipal police department
  • come up for air — rise to water's surface
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • corporification — an act or the quality of embodying
  • cost of capital — The cost of capital is how much it costs to borrow money with interest or issue securities to raise money.
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • deferred period — The deferred period is the period of time from when a person has become unable to work until the time that the benefit begins to be paid.
  • despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
  • dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
  • draughtproofing — Present participle of draughtproof.
  • drink deep (of) — to take in a large amount (of) by or as by drinking
  • dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • explain oneself — to make clear what one means
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • fairy footsteps — heavy footsteps
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • fasciolopsiasis — a parasitic disease caused by flukes of the genus Fasciolopsis and characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea: common in the Far East.
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • finance company — an institution engaged in such specialized forms of financing as purchasing accounts receivable, extending credit to retailers and manufacturers, discounting installment contracts, and granting loans with goods as security.
  • finger-pointing — the imputation of blame or responsibility.
  • fire prevention — safety measures to decrease fire risk
  • fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
  • first responder — a person who is certified to provide medical care in emergencies before more highly trained medical personnel arrive on the scene: a firefighter trained as a first responder.
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • flow of spirits — natural happiness

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