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15-letter words containing f, e, n, o, p, r

  • nonprofessorial — not professorial
  • nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
  • offset printing — offset (def 6).
  • over-performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • part of fortune — the celestial longitude of the moon plus the celestial longitude of the ascendant minus the celestial longitude of the sun: said to connote an area of life through which one achieves emotional satisfaction.
  • patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • prefix notation — (language)   (Or "prefix syntax") One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in prefix notation the function precedes all its operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "(+ 1 2)". A few languages (e.g., lisp) have strictly prefix syntax, many more employ prefix notation in combination with infix notation. The opposite, postfix notation, is somewhat rarer.
  • preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
  • preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • prenflo process — The PRENFLO process is a gasification process to convert substances such as oil, gas, coal, and refinery residue into synthetic gas.
  • prenotification — notice that is given or served prior to a specific date; advance notice.
  • preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
  • present oneself — to appear, esp at a specific time and place
  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • prince of peace — Jesus Christ, regarded by Christians as the Messiah. Isa. 9:6.
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • prisoner of war — a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces. Abbreviation: POW.
  • pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
  • professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
  • proper function — eigenfunction.
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
  • reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
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