10-letter words containing p, c, f
- flight cap — a wedge-shaped cap of cotton or woolen fabric, worn as part of the service uniform.
- flip chart — a set of sheets, as of cardboard or paper, hinged at the top so that they can be flipped over to show information or illustrations in sequence.
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- foetoscope — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fetoscope.
- foetoscopy — Alternative form of fetoscopy.
- fool's cap — a traditional jester's cap or hood, often multicolored and usually having several drooping peaks from which bells are hung.
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- force pump — a pump that delivers a liquid under pressure, so as to eject it forcibly.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
- free space — unused memory or storage
- french dip — a hot sandwich of roast beef, pork, or lamb, served on a crusty roll over which seasoned pan juices are poured.
- french pox — (in historical use) syphilis.
- funduscopy — Ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye.
- funnel cap — any of various basidiomycetous fungi of the genus Clitocybe, characterized by the funnel-shaped caps and, usually, markedly decurrent gills
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- imperfects — Plural form of imperfect.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- of a piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
- off-pricer — a seller of off-price merchandise.
- open-faced — having a frank or ingenuous face.
- pacificate — to pacify.
- pacificism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- pacificist — a person who is opposed to violence
- pacifistic — of or relating to pacifism or pacifists.
- pale-faced — having a pale face
- paraffinic — of, noting, or characteristic of paraffin wax or a paraffin hydrocarbon.
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- pelvic fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins on the lower surface of the body, corresponding to the hind limbs of a land vertebrate; ventral fin.
- perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- perfective — tending to make perfect; conducive to perfection.
- perficient — someone who or something that accomplishes or completes a task, etc
- pine finch — pine siskin.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pluperfect — Grammar. perfect with respect to a point of reference in past time, as had done in He had done it when I came. designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning, as Latin portāveram “I had carried.”.
- poculiform — having the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.