11-letter words containing a, l, f
- pacifically — peaceably, mildly, calmly, or quietly.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- pain relief — techniques concerned with preventing or reducing pain
- palm family — the plant family Palmae (or Arecaceae; formerly, Palmaceae), characterized by chiefly tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having large compound leaves in featherlike or fanlike fronds, large clusters of small flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the palmettos, ornamental palms, and palms that are the source of carnauba wax, coconuts, dates, raffia, rattan, sago, and various oils.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- papilliform — resembling a papilla.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- parfocalize — to make parfocal
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- pine family — the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genus Cedrus), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.
- pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- plank floor — a floor made from sawed, straight-grained timber.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
- prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
- prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- proliferate — spread
- prolificacy — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- qualifiable — capable of being qualified: qualifiable statements.
- qualifiedly — With qualification; conditionally.
- quarterlife — designating the period of life immediately following adolescence, usually the early twenties to early thirties
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- racing flag — a distinguishing flag flown by a yacht during the period of its participation in a race.
- raffia palm — any of various palms of the genus Raphia, as R. farinifera of tropical Africa, having pinnate leaves that yield a strong, flexible fiber.
- readme file — (convention, documentation) A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
- rectifiable — able to be rectified.
- referential — having reference: referential to something.
- reflectance — the ratio of the intensity of reflected radiation to that of the radiation incident on a surface.
- refocillate — to refresh, revive, give new life
- reformulate — to formulate again.
- refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- refuellable — capable of being refuelled
- reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- researchful — (of a book, academic paper etc) full of research, containing or built upon a great deal of research