12-letter words containing i, p, r
- finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fingerprints — Plural form of fingerprint.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
- fireproofing — the act or process of rendering fireproof.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
- first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
- fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- flight strip — Aeronautics. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft. runway.
- flip-flopper — a person who makes a complete change of policy, opinion, etc
- floor polish — a substance used to polish floors
- flop forging — forging of both sides of a piece from the same die, the sides being identical.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- fluorapatite — a crystalline mineral, Ca 5 (PO 4) 3 F, formed from hydroxyapatite in the presence of fluoride, that has a hardening effect on bones and teeth.
- fluoroscopic — of or relating to the fluoroscope or fluoroscopy.
- foetoprotein — Alternative spelling of fetoprotein.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- former pupil — someone who used to attend a particular school or be a student of a particular teacher
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- fried potato — Fried potatoes are pieces of potato cooked in oil or fat.
- fringe group — a group that is on the periphery of a larger organization because its views are more extreme than the majority
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- gallinippers — Plural form of gallinipper.
- garlic press — kitchen tool for crushing garlic
- garrison cap — overseas cap.
- gastroscopic — Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.
- generalships — Plural form of generalship.
- geographical — of or relating to geography.
- georgia pine — longleaf pine.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.