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14-letter words containing p, c, f

  • 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
  • food processor — an electric appliance with interchangeable blades within a closed container into which food is inserted for slicing, shredding, mincing, chopping, puréeing, or otherwise processing at high speeds.
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
  • free companion — a member of a band of mercenary soldiers during the Middle Ages.
  • french pancake — a thin, light pancake, usually served with a sweet or savory filling.
  • french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
  • friar preacher — a Dominican friar.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • 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.
  • future perfect — perfect with respect to a temporal point of reference in time to come; completed with respect to a time in the future, especially when incomplete with respect to the present.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
  • hyperefficient — more efficient than normal
  • indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • letter-perfect — knowing one's part, lesson, or the like, perfectly.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
  • nonproficiency — absence or lack of proficiency.
  • nonspecificity — The state or condition of being nonspecific.
  • offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
  • openoffice.org — (project)   (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
  • pacific salmon — any salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, especially the chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha.
  • pacifistically — from a pacifistic point of view
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
  • parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
  • party official — an official of a political party
  • pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
  • peltier effect — the change in temperature of either junction of a thermocouple when a current is maintained in the thermocouple and after allowance is made for a temperature change due to resistance.
  • perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
  • perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
  • perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
  • perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
  • perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
  • perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
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