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12-letter words containing f, a, l, o

  • pack of lies — false account
  • palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
  • paraffin-oil — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • penny loafer — a loafer with a slot on the vamp that can hold a coin, usually a penny.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic foam — expanded plastic.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
  • poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
  • poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
  • poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
  • port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
  • poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
  • prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
  • rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
  • rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
  • reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
  • roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
  • roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
  • roofing nail — a short nail for nailing asphalt shingles or the like, having a broad head.
  • rotflmaoastc — (chat)   Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (or arse) off and scaring the cat. The superlative form of ROTFL.
  • royal family — the immediate family of a reigning monarch.
  • run afoul of — fall foul / afoul of, to collide with, as ships. to come into conflict with; quarrel. to make an attack; assault.
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
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