10-letter words containing a, l, f
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- paul flory — Paul John, 1910–85, U.S. chemist: pioneer in research on polymers; Nobel Prize 1974.
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- phialiform — having a form like that of a saucer
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- pilferable — capable of being pilfered
- pilot flag — the flag symbolizing the letter G in the International Code of Signals, flown by itself to request a pilot from a pilot service: a flag of three yellow and three blue vertical stripes.
- plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- plant food — nourishment, as fertilizer or chemicals, for plants.
- plant life — vegetation, flora
- platterful — a heaped plate or platter
- play false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- playfellow — a playmate.
- pomace fly — vinegar fly.
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pratfallen — having fallen upon one's buttocks
- preferable — more desirable.
- preferably — more desirable.
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- prefuneral — the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
- prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
- pro-family — that favors or benefits families
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- quadrifoil — Alternative form of quadrifoliate.
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- qualifying — Present participle of qualify.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- raduliform — rasp-like
- rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
- rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- referrable — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
- reflex arc — the nerve pathways followed by an impulse during a reflex.
- reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reformable — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- refuelable — capable of being refuelled
- refundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- relay fast — (esp in India) a form of protest in which a number of persons go without food by turns