12-letter words containing f, c, p
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfectivize — to make perfective.
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- picket fence — a fence consisting of pickets or pales nailed to horizontal stringers between upright posts.
- piece of ass — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pinch effect — the tendency of an electric conductor or stream of charged particles to constrict, caused by the action of a magnetic field that is produced by a flow of electricity.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- 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.
- pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
- point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- police force — police (def 1).
- 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
- prespecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- price freeze — temporary fixing of prices
- price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- puffa jacket — a warm quilted and padded jacket
- pulp fiction — fiction dealing with lurid or sensational subjects, often printed on rough, low-quality paper manufactured from wood pulp.
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- 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.
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
- scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.