13-letter words containing p, i, f
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- frame pointer — A pointer to the current activation record in an implementation of a block structured language.
- franklin park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- 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
- freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
- friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
- furring strip — a strip of wood or metal fixed to a wall, floor, or ceiling to provide a surface for the fixing of plasterboard, floorboards, etc
- gap financing — a mortgage or property loan given as an interim loan to finance the difference between the floor loan and the maximum permanent loan
- giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
- group of five — France, Japan, UK, US, and Germany acting as a group to stabilize their currency exchange rates
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- help off with — If you help someone off with an item of clothing, you help them take it off.
- host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.
- housewifeship — the role of a housewife, household management
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypoperfusion — (medicine) Decreased perfusion of blood through an organ.
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- imperfectible — that cannot be perfected.
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
- imperfectness — of, relating to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses: imperfect vision.
- imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- import tariff — a tax or duty imposed on imported goods
- in despite of — in spite of
- in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
- in-capable of — not capable.
- infinite loop — (programming) (Or "endless loop") Where a piece of program is executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a bug, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an embedded system which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some operating system kernels following a panic. A program executing an infinite loop is said to spin or buzz forever and goes catatonic. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also black hole, recursion, infinite loop.
- infraposition — A situation or position beneath.
- infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
- infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
- interspecific — existing or occurring between species.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.