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11-letter words containing p, c, e

  • fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
  • fixed price — a price established by a seller, by agreement or by authority, as the price to be charged invariably.
  • fixed-price — option: with set cost
  • flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
  • flat-packed — (of a piece of furniture, equipment, or other construction) supplied in pieces packed into a flat box for assembly by the buyer
  • flitchplate — an iron or steel plate for reinforcing a flitch beam.
  • flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
  • floor price — a minimum price required of an item being auctioned.
  • floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
  • fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
  • flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
  • focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
  • focal plane — a plane through a focal point and normal to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system. Compare principal plane.
  • food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
  • food prices — the prices that consumers are charged for food
  • footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
  • forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
  • fort casper — a fort in central Wyoming, near Casper: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
  • fort pierce — a city on the E coast of Florida.
  • francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
  • francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
  • francophone — Also, Francophonic [frang-kuh-fon-ik] /ˌfræŋ kəˈfɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). speaking French, especially as a member of a French-speaking population.
  • free speech — freedom of speech.
  • french chop — a rib chop, usually of lamb, with the meat trimmed from the end of the bone.
  • french harp — harmonica (def 1).
  • ftp archive — archive site
  • gastroscope — a lighted flexible tubular instrument passed through the mouth for examining the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.
  • genetic map — an arrangement of genes on a chromosome.
  • genotypical — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
  • geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
  • geopolitics — the study or the application of the influence of political and economic geography on the politics, national power, foreign policy, etc., of a state.
  • geostrophic — of or relating to the balance between the Coriolis force and the horizontal pressure force in the atmosphere.
  • germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
  • germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • glyptotheca — a space devoted to sculpture
  • gopherspace — (networking)   The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
  • grape juice — nectar of the grape
  • graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
  • groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
  • guide price — a speculative price for something not yet offered for sale
  • gynecopathy — any disease occurring only in women.
  • gypsy scale — either of two scales that often form the basis of Hungarian Gypsy music.
  • hackerspace — A place where hackers meet to work on programming and hardware projects together, and to share their knowledge.
  • haemophilic — Of or pertaining to haemophilia.
  • hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
  • hand-picked — to pick by hand.
  • handicapped — Sometimes Offensive. physically or mentally disabled.
  • handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
  • haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
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