11-letter words containing f, i, p
- pacifically — peaceably, mildly, calmly, or quietly.
- pacificator — to pacify.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- pain relief — techniques concerned with preventing or reducing pain
- palm family — the plant family Palmae (or Arecaceae; formerly, Palmaceae), characterized by chiefly tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having large compound leaves in featherlike or fanlike fronds, large clusters of small flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the palmettos, ornamental palms, and palms that are the source of carnauba wax, coconuts, dates, raffia, rattan, sago, and various oils.
- pan-african — of or relating to all African nations or peoples.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- paper knife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- papilliform — resembling a papilla.
- paraffinize — paraffin (def 4).
- paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- parfocalize — to make parfocal
- parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
- 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
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- 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.
- pink family — the plant family Caryophyllaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite leaves, usually swollen-jointed stems, flowers with petals notched at the tips, and fruit generally in the form of a many-seeded capsule, and including baby's-breath, carnation, chickweed, pink, and sweet william.
- 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.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- 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.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.