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11-letter words containing f, l, a, p

  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
  • prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
  • proliferate — spread
  • prolificacy — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • raffia palm — any of various palms of the genus Raphia, as R. farinifera of tropical Africa, having pinnate leaves that yield a strong, flexible fiber.
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • safety lamp — a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the immediate ignition of explosive gases.
  • scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
  • self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
  • self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
  • shelf space — amount of room on shelves
  • soft palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spanish fly — Also called cantharides. a preparation of powdered blister beetles, especially the Spanish fly, used medicinally as a counterirritant, diuretic, and aphrodisiac.
  • specifiable — that can be specified.
  • spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
  • splashproof — resistant to splashing
  • superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
  • superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • taffy apple — candy apple.
  • teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
  • toploftical — having a superior or disdainful attitude; toplofty
  • unamplified — not amplified, magnified, or enlarged
  • unflappable — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
  • up for sale — If a property or company is up for sale, its owner is trying to sell it.
  • wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
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