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11-letter words containing p, f

  • fancy-pants — Slang. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.
  • fast asleep — sleeping deeply
  • fast packet — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  • fault plane — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
  • fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
  • fax over ip — (communications)   (FoIP) Transmission of a facsimile over an IP networking instead of PSTN, analogous to Voice over IP.
  • feeding cup — spout cup.
  • feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
  • fellowships — Plural form of fellowship.
  • fender pile — a pile, usually one of a group, set beside ferry slips, wharves, etc., to guide approaching vessels and driven so as to yield slightly when struck in order to lessen the shock of contact.
  • fernando po — a former name of Bioko.
  • ferrography — the analysis of iron in lubricants in order to assess the extent of wear in a machine
  • fesse point — the midpoint of a shield
  • fetoprotein — (protein) Any of several antigens produced in a developing embryo, of which the most common is alpha-fetoprotein.
  • fever pitch — a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people: The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.
  • fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
  • fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
  • fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
  • field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
  • field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
  • fieldpieces — Plural form of fieldpiece.
  • file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
  • film script — a script containing dialogue and directions for a film; a screenplay
  • filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
  • filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
  • finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
  • fingerpaint — A form of paint designed to be applied using the fingers, especially by children.
  • fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
  • fingerplate — a metal plate fixed to a door next to the handle or keyhole to protect the surface
  • fingerprint — an impression of the markings of the inner surface of the last joint of the thumb or other finger.
  • fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
  • fire temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
  • fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
  • fireproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of fireproof.
  • fissiparism — (biology) reproduction by spontaneous fission.
  • fissiparity — (biology) The quality of being fissiparous.
  • fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
  • fitzpatrick — Sean (ʃɔːn). born 1963, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer; played in 92 test matches (1986–97), 51 as captain
  • fixed point — (mathematics)   The fixed point of a function, f is any value, x for which f x = x. A function may have any number of fixed points from none (e.g. f x = x+1) to infinitely many (e.g. f x = x). The fixed point combinator, written as either "fix" or "Y" will return the fixed point of a function. See also least fixed point.
  • fixed price — a price established by a seller, by agreement or by authority, as the price to be charged invariably.
  • fixed-point — (programming)   A number representation scheme where a number, F is represented by an integer I such that F=I*R^-P, where R is the (assumed) radix of the representation and P is the (fixed) number of digits after the radix point. On computers with no floating-point unit, fixed-point calculations are significantly faster than floating-point as all the operations are basically integer operations. Fixed-point representation also has the advantage of having uniform density, i.e., the smallest resolvable difference of the representation is R^-P throughout the representable range, in contrast to floating-point representations. For example, in PL/I, FIXED data has both a precision and a scale-factor (P above). So a number declared as 'FIXED DECIMAL(7,2)' has a precision of seven and a scale-factor of two, indicating five integer and two fractional decimal digits. The smallest difference between numbers will be 0.01.
  • fixed-price — option: with set cost
  • fixer-upper — a person who is handy at making repairs.
  • flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
  • flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
  • flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
  • flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
  • flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  • flash point — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
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