17-letter words containing f, e, d, p
- pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
- prelingually deaf — deaf from birth or having acquired deafness before learning to speak
- presiding officer — the person who presides over the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly
- proficiency badge — an insignia or device granted by the Girl Scouts and worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
- proof of identity — a document or documents used to verify someone's identity
- pseudo-scientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- queen of puddings — a pudding made of moist but firm breadcrumb and custard mixture topped with jam and meringue
- reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
- refractory period — a short period after a nerve or muscle cell fires during which the cell cannot respond to additional stimulation.
- sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
- self-depreciating — self-deprecating.
- self-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- shutter-preferred — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- specific humidity — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in air to the total mass of the mixture of air and water vapor.
- speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
- springfield rifle — a single-shot, breechloading .45-caliber rifle used by the U.S. Army from 1867 to 1893.
- stratified sample — a sample that is not drawn at random from the whole population, but separately from a number of disjoint strata of the population in order to ensure a more representative sample
- striped killifish — a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
- sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
- the depths of sth — the deepest, most intense, or most severe part
- to play the field — If someone plays the field, they have a number of different romantic or sexual relationships.