13-letter words containing f, e, p, i
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- profit center — a segment of a business organization that has a profitable base independent of the business as a whole.
- profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- public office — position in government
- pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
- referred pain — pain felt in an area remote from the site of origin.
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- site-specific — created, designed, or selected for a specific site: a site-specific sculpture.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- special offer — bargain
- special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
- specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
- specification — the act of specifying.
- specificities — the quality or state of being specific.
- speeding fine — a fine for breaking the speed limit while driving a vehicle
- spider flower — cleome
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.