13-letter words containing p, f
- film première — the first performance of a particular film in a cinema
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- financing gap — the difference between a country's requirements for foreign exchange to finance its debts and imports and its income from overseas
- finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
- fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
- fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
- fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
- first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
- flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
- flesh peddler — a prostitute.
- flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
- flip-flopping — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
- florianopolis — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
- flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
- flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
- folded dipole — a type of aerial, widely used with television and VHF radio receivers, consisting of two parallel dipoles connected together at their outer ends and fed at the centre of one of them. The length is usually half the operating wavelength
- folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
- foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
- food shopping — shopping to buy food
- food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
- footing piece — one of a series of horizontal transverse timbers supporting a platform or staging.
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- frame pointer — A pointer to the current activation record in an implementation of a block structured language.
- frank chapman — Frank Michler [mik-ler] /ˈmɪk lər/ (Show IPA), 1864–1945, U.S. ornithologist, museum curator, and author.
- franklin park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
- free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
- free-spirited — characterized by independence and unconventionality