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12-letter words containing p, e, r, f

  • flip-flopper — a person who makes a complete change of policy, opinion, etc
  • floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
  • floor sample — an appliance, piece of furniture, or other article of merchandise that has been used for display or demonstration and is usually offered at a reduced price.
  • floppy drive — disk drive
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • flower power — Flower power is an old-fashioned way of referring to hippies and the culture associated with hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • 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.
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
  • focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
  • foetoprotein — Alternative spelling of fetoprotein.
  • followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
  • fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.
  • 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.
  • forepleasure — the aggregate of pleasurable sensations that lead to a heightened physical or emotional response, as of those aroused in sexual intercourse that lead to an orgasm.
  • foretopmasts — Plural form of foretopmast.
  • foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
  • forlorn hope — a perilous or desperate enterprise.
  • 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.
  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
  • foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
  • four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
  • francophones — Plural form of francophone.
  • free company — a band of free companions.
  • freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
  • french pleat — curtain, draperies
  • 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
  • fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
  • full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
  • funeral plan — A funeral plan is a basic life insurance policy that provides money to pay for the policyholder's funeral expenses when they die.
  • funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
  • funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
  • future-proof — (of a system, computer, program, etc) guaranteed not to be superseded by future versions, developments, etc
  • galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
  • gift receipt — A gift receipt shows proof of purchase but leaves out the amount spent. It can be used to return goods given as a gift.
  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
  • group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
  • hasenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
  • herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
  • high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
  • high-profile — prominent publicly
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