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12-letter words containing f, c, a, p

  • past perfect — pluperfect.
  • patent cliff — a potential sharp drop in sales and revenue for a company when one of its patents expires: the looming patent cliffs faced by pharmaceutical firms.
  • peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • 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
  • perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
  • perfect ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
  • piece of ass — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • 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 car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
  • post-fascist — of or relating to various right-wing political parties in Europe which espouse a modified form of fascism and which take part in constitutional politics
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
  • prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
  • puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
  • purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
  • putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
  • scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
  • scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
  • specifically — in a definite or precise manner: The suspect was not specifically named in the report. More specifically, you will be responsible for half the total cost.
  • spiflication — rough treatment
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
  • transpacific — passing or extending across the Pacific.
  • typification — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
  • unpeacefully — in an unpeaceful manner
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