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12-letter words containing f, l, e, a, p

  • pack of lies — false account
  • paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
  • pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
  • parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
  • parsley fern — a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • patent cliff — a potential sharp drop in sales and revenue for a company when one of its patents expires: the looming patent cliffs faced by pharmaceutical firms.
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • penny loafer — a loafer with a slot on the vamp that can hold a coin, usually a penny.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • preamplifier — a device in the amplifier circuit of a radio or phonograph that increases the strength of a weak signal for detection and further amplification.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • private life — the social or family life or personal relationships of an individual, esp of a person in the public eye, such as a politician or celebrity
  • professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
  • self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • shuffle play — a facility on a compact disc player that randomly selects a track from one of a number of compact discs
  • simplifiable — having the ability to be made less complicated, clearer, or easier
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
  • specifically — in a definite or precise manner: The suspect was not specifically named in the report. More specifically, you will be responsible for half the total cost.
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • sulfate pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfate process.
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • taper relief — (in Britain) a system of relief from capital gains tax under which the percentage of a chargeable gain considered taxable is reduced for each whole year (from April 1998) that the asset was held by the vendor
  • to fall open — If something falls open, it opens accidentally.
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