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12-letter words containing p, f

  • escape shaft — a shaft in a mine through which miners can escape if the regular shaft is blocked
  • exemplifying — Present participle of exemplify.
  • face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
  • factor group — quotient group.
  • factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
  • fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
  • feel no pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
  • feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
  • feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
  • fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
  • felt-tip pen — a pen that holds quick-drying ink conveyed to a writing surface by means of a felt nib.
  • fermat prime — (mathematics)   A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
  • fernando póo — Bioko
  • fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
  • fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
  • fibre optics — optical fibre
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • fighting top — one of the gun platforms on the lower masts of sailing men-of-war, used in attacking the crew of an enemy ship with swivel guns and muskets
  • filial piety — (in Confucianism) the important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members.
  • film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
  • filter paper — porous paper used in filtering.
  • filter press — an apparatus used for filtration consisting of a set of frames covered with filter cloth on both sides, between which the liquid to be filtered is pumped
  • financescape — Figuratively, the financial landscape; financial markets.
  • finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
  • finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
  • fingerprints — Plural form of fingerprint.
  • fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
  • fipple flute — a recorder or other flutelike instrument equipped with a fipple.
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • fireproofing — the act or process of rendering fireproof.
  • firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
  • first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
  • fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
  • fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
  • fishing pole — a long, slender rod of wood or other material with a line and hook fastened to one end for use in catching fish.
  • fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
  • fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
  • flag captain — the captain of a flagship
  • flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
  • flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
  • flameproofer — any agent which renders something flameproof
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
  • fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
  • flight strip — Aeronautics. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft. runway.
  • flip-flopped — shod in flip-flops; wearing flip-flops
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