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12-letter words containing p, 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 polish — a substance used to polish floors
  • 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.
  • flop forging — forging of both sides of a piece from the same die, the sides being identical.
  • 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.
  • fluorography — photofluorography.
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopic — of or relating to the fluoroscope or fluoroscopy.
  • fluphenazine — a potent tranquilizer, C 22 H 26 F 3 N 3 OS, derived from phenothiazine and used in various forms for the management of certain neurological or psychotic disorders and for short-term treatment of acute anxiety.
  • fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
  • foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
  • 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.
  • folsom point — a flint point characteristic of the Folsom tradition, typically leaf-shaped and fluted, with small basal extensions, and used on a projectile, as a spear, for hunting game.
  • food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
  • foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
  • footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
  • 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
  • formyl group — the univalent group HCO–, derived from formic acid.
  • fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
  • fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
  • forward pass — a pass in which the ball is thrown in the direction of advance toward the opponent's goal.
  • forward post — the position held by a soldier on the forward line
  • forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
  • fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
  • fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
  • foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
  • fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
  • four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
  • fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
  • fractography — the study of fractures or cracks in a material, esp metal, in order to predict or identify the cause of a failure in a structure
  • francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
  • francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
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