12-letter words containing p, f
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- 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
- fuddling cup — an English earthenware drinking vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, having the form of a cluster of three or more cups communicating at their bottoms in such a way that the entire vessel can be drained from any of them.
- 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- future-proof — (of a system, computer, program, etc) guaranteed not to be superseded by future versions, developments, etc
- gaff topsail — Also called fore-and-aft topsail. a jib-headed fore-and-aft sail set above a gaff.
- gaff-topsail — Also called fore-and-aft topsail. a jib-headed fore-and-aft sail set above a gaff.
- 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.
- giftwrapping — giftwrapping.
- 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.
- gross profit — gross receipts less the cost of goods or production but before the deduction of such other costs as rent or salaries.
- 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
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- 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
- hopper frame — a window frame having one or more upper sashes hinged at the bottoms and opening inward.
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- hypofunction — abnormally diminished function, especially of glands or other organs.
- impatient of — not willing to bear or tolerate
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- incapable of — not allowing or admitting; not able to accept or experience
- indo-pacific — of or relating to the areas of the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of SE Asia.
- infant apnea — a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring in some newborns (infant apnea) and in some adults during sleep (sleep apnea)
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.