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18-letter words containing p, r, e, f, a

  • shatterproof glass — glass designed to resist shattering
  • soda-lime feldspar — plagioclase.
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • speak for yourself — If you say 'Speak for yourself' when someone has said something, you mean that what they have said is only their opinion or applies only to them.
  • specrate_base_fp92 — (benchmark)   A variant of SPECrate_fp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • spotted flycatcher — a European woodland songbird, Muscicapa striata, with a greyish-brown streaked plumage: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
  • sweptwing aircraft — an aircraft which has wings that are swept (usually) backwards
  • take the wraps off — to reveal
  • territory of papua — a former territory of Australia, consisting of SE New Guinea and adjacent islands: now part of Papua New Guinea
  • the better part of — a large part of
  • to play favourites — to display favouritism
  • transfer passenger — a traveller who changes from one plane, train, or bus to another, or to another form of transport
  • unfair competition — acts done by a seller to confuse or deceive the public with intent to acquire a larger portion of the market, as by cutting prices below cost, misleading advertising, selling a spurious product under a false identity, etc.
  • vermiform appendix — a narrow, blind tube protruding from the cecum, having no known useful function, in humans being 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 cm) long and situated in the lower right-hand part of the abdomen.
  • wild passionflower — the maypop, Passiflora incarnata.
  • wildlife programme — (esp on television) a documentary whose subject is wild animals in their natural habitat or undomesticated fauna and flora generally
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