11-letter words containing f, e, p, i
- pension off — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- perfectible — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
- perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
- pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pine family — the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genus Cedrus), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.
- pipe fitter — a person who installs and repairs pipe systems.
- pipefitting — a joint or connector, as an elbow, union, or tee, used in a pipe system.
- pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
- plentifully — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
- podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
- pre-confirm — to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- premodified — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- prima facie — at first appearance; at first view, before investigation.
- prime field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- profiterole — a small cream puff with a sweet or savory filling, as of cream and chocolate sauce.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferate — spread
- proliferous — proliferating.
- provide for — support financially
- public life — public service as an elected or appointed government official.
- puddingwife — a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
- puffed rice — a type of puffed rice grain that is commonly used in breakfast cereals and snacks
- putty knife — a tool for puttying, having a broad flexible blade.