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14-letter words containing p, f

  • funeral parlor — A funeral parlor is the same as a funeral home.
  • future perfect — perfect with respect to a temporal point of reference in time to come; completed with respect to a time in the future, especially when incomplete with respect to the present.
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • grapefruitlike — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group of seven — G7.
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • half-lap joint — a joint between two timbers halved together so that a flush surface results.
  • half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • happy families — a card game in which the object is to collect the cards (which display images of people) until you have a complete family
  • harper's ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
  • heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
  • hopfield model — Hopfield network
  • horn of plenty — cornucopia.
  • house of peers — former name of the Japanese House of Councilors.
  • hyper-feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
  • hyperefficient — more efficient than normal
  • hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
  • in/out of step — If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.
  • independent of — without the support of
  • indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
  • infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
  • infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
  • infralapsarian — a person who believes in infralapsarianism.
  • intrafallopian — occurring within either of the Fallopian tubes
  • jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
  • keep the faith — stay true to beliefs
  • keep the field — to continue activity, as in games or military operations
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • letter-perfect — knowing one's part, lesson, or the like, perfectly.
  • life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • loophole frame — a frame in the opening of a wall enclosing a window and some other opening.
  • lord of appeal — one of several judges appointed to assist the House of Lords in hearing appeals
  • marvel-of-peru — the four-o'clock, Mirabilis jalapa.
  • mean free path — the average distance that a particle travels between successive collisions with other particles.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
  • nfld & lab — Newfoundland and Labrador
  • nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
  • nonproficiency — absence or lack of proficiency.
  • nonspecificity — The state or condition of being nonspecific.
  • not-for-profit — nonprofit.
  • of set purpose — with a specific end in view
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