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8-letter words containing p, f

  • freepost — Freepost is a system in Britain which allows you to send mail to certain organizations without paying for the postage. 'Freepost' is written on the envelope as part of the address.
  • frippery — finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
  • frog pad — a rubber or leather cushion fixed to a leather sole and fitted under a horseshoe to reduce shock to a horse's foot
  • front up — to pay (money) at the beginning of a business arrangement
  • frostnip — The first stage of frostbite.
  • frumpily — In a frumpy manner.
  • frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
  • full pay — the full amount of wages of salary
  • fullstop — Alt form full stop.
  • furphies — Plural form of furphy.
  • gap-fill — In language teaching, a gap-fill test is an exercise in which words are removed from a text and replaced with spaces. The learner has to fill each space with the missing word or a suitable word.
  • giftshop — a shop that sells items that are suitable for giving as presents
  • giftwrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
  • gigaflop — gigaflops
  • gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
  • half pay — half one's regular pay.
  • half-cup — half of a cup, equal to 4 fluid ounces (0.1 liter) or 8 tablespoons.
  • half-pie — poorly planned or conceived
  • halfpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight.
  • halfpipe — Alternative form of half-pipe.
  • helpfull — Archaic form of helpful.
  • hip roof — a roof with sloping ends and sides; a hipped roof.
  • hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
  • hopefull — Archaic form of hopeful.
  • hopefuls — Plural form of hopeful.
  • hopfield — a field in which hops are grown
  • impurify — To make impure.
  • infodump — Alternative spelling of info-dump.
  • infoporn — Information which does not serve a purpose other than to hold the attention of its audience; information for information's sake.
  • ipatieff — Vladimir Nikolaievich (ˈvlædɪmɪə ˌnɪkəˈlaɪəvɪtʃ). 1867–1952, US physicist, born in Russia. He discovered the structure of isoprene (1897) and later developed high-octane fuels
  • jam puff — a small pastry with fruit jam inside it
  • jamproof — built so as to prevent jamming: a jamproof copying machine.
  • jump-off — an act or instance of jumping; leap.
  • keep fit — do physical exercise
  • keep off — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keep-fit — Keep-fit is the activity of keeping your body in good condition by doing special exercises.
  • kelpfish — any of several blennies that are common among kelp. Compare kelp greenling.
  • kickflip — (skateboarding) An ollie where the board is rotated 360 degrees along its axis.
  • kopfring — a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water.
  • lapidify — To become stone or stony.
  • leaf gap — (in the stele of vascular plants) a break in the tissue of a stem around a leaf trace.
  • leapfrog — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
  • loaf pan — a rectangular metal or glass pan for baking cakes, breads, meatloaf, etc.
  • lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
  • megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
  • mud flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
  • mud-flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
  • mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
  • napiform — round at the top and tapering sharply below; turnip-shaped, as a root.
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