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

  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • petty official — a minor official in government, etc
  • placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
  • plantar reflex — a normal reflex flexion of the toes, especially in persons above one year of age, resulting from stroking the sole of the foot.
  • platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
  • platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
  • potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
  • public welfare — state aid to the poor
  • reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • rufflette tape — a kind of heading tape for curtains
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-appraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
  • shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
  • space platform — space station.
  • speak well for — to say or indicate something favorable about
  • special effect — Usually, special effects. a video or audio illusion in film or other media, created with computer-generated images, prosthetic makeup, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • special forces — crack military team
  • staff corporal — a noncommissioned rank in the British Army above that of staff sergeant and below that of warrant officer
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superficialize — to treat things superficially
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