FP may refer to:

Arts, media and entertainment

Music

  • Fortepiano, an early version of the piano
  • Fortepiano (musical dynamic), an Italian musical term meaning 'loud soft'
  • Flux Pavilion, a British dubstep artist
  • Francis Poulenc, an early 20th century pianist and composer
  • FP (catalogue) - of his compositions.
  • "FP", song by Arcángel and Rauw Alejandro from Sentimiento, Elegancia y Más Maldad, 2023

Publications

  • Financial Post, a Canadian business newspaper, published from 1907 to 1998, now National Post
  • Foreign Policy, a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970

Other media

  • Facepunch Studios, a British video game company
  • The FP, a 2011 comedy film
  • Fast Picket, a class of fictional artificially intelligent starship in The Culture universe of late Scottish author Iain Banks

Science and technology

Computing

  • FP (complexity), in computational complexity theory, a complexity class
  • FP (programming language) designed by John Backus in the 1970s
  • Feature Pack, a software update for various devices which include new features
  • Floating point, a numerical-representation system in computing
  • Frame pointer
  • Microsoft FrontPage, an HTML editor
  • Functional programming, a programming paradigm
  • Function point, a measurement of the business functionality an information system provides

Transportation

  • F - Production, a class of race cars
  • F engine, a piston engine by Mazda
  • New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit (Matangi), a class of electric multiple locomotive unit
  • Ford Racing, formerly Ford Performance

Other uses in science and technology

  • False positive, in statistics, a result that indicates, inaccurately, that a condition has been fulfilled
  • Ilford FP, a cubic-grain black-and-white photographic film
  • Fabry–Pérot interferometer, a device in optics
  • Fire protection, in the construction industry
  • Fluoroprotein foam, a type of fire retardant foam
  • Forensic psychiatry, a subspeciality of psychiatry related to criminology
  • Cyclopentadienyliron(II) dicarbonyl group (Fp = (η<sup>5</sup>-C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>5</sub>)Fe(CO)<sub>2</sub>, colloquially pronounced as "fip"), see: cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer (Fp<sub>2</sub>)
  • Prostaglandin F receptor, a receptor on cells which mediates responses to prostaglandin F2alpha

Politics

  • Freedom Party (disambiguation), the name of various political parties
  • Folkpartiet, a former name of the Liberal People's Party in Sweden
  • The Federalist Papers, a series of essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution
  • Força Portugal, a Portuguese political alliance
  • Force Publique (French for "public force"), the military force of the Belgian Congo during the colonial period
  • Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development of the European Union
  • Fuerza Popular, a right-wing populist Fujimorist political party in Peru
  • Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi), an Islamist political party in Turkey

Other uses

  • 50 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as free pistol
  • Facepalm, a gesture indicating frustration
  • Family planning, the use of birth control and planning when to have children
  • Family practice, a general practitioner or family physician
  • Finance Park, an educational program co-managed by the Stavros Institute in Pinellas County, Florida
  • First person, a grammatical person referring to the speaker
  • FlyPelican, an Australian airline (IATA code FP)
  • Force protection, in the US military
  • French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • Friends Provident, a British insurance company
  • Friday prayer, a congregational prayer service among Muslims
  • Fp, runestone style characterized by runic bands that end with animal heads seen from above.
  • The nickname of Falakata Polytechnic, West Bengal
  • FP grade tea
  • Fairphone, an electronics designer and manufacturer