14-letter words containing f, e, d, p
- partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
- penny dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
- penny-dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
- pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
- play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
- reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
- safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
- saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
- self professed — avowed; acknowledged.
- self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
- self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
- self-dependent — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- self-exploited — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
- self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
- self-performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- self-possessed — having or showing control of one's feelings, behavior, etc.; composed; poised.
- self-professed — avowed; acknowledged.
- self-propelled — propelled by itself.
- self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
- semper fidelis — always faithful
- sharp-featured — having very clearly defined facial features
- spadefoot toad — any of several nocturnal toads of the family Pelobatidae, common in the Northern Hemisphere, characterized by a horny, spadelike projection on each hind foot for burrowing under the soil.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superfecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- unprovided for — without income or means
- weatherproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherproof.
- well-performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.