12-letter words containing f, l, p
- platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- police force — police (def 1).
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
- poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
- port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
- 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
- potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
- pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
- 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
- premium fuel — fuel or gasoline which has a higher octane value and is more expensive than standard fuel
- pressed felt — Pressed felt is a material made from compressed fibers and used as a filter.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- 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
- problem-free — without problems
- 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.
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- 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.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- puff sleeves — the sleeves of a women's garment that are gathered at the shoulders and caught in at the cuff to create an inflated, puffy effect
- pulp fiction — fiction dealing with lurid or sensational subjects, often printed on rough, low-quality paper manufactured from wood pulp.
- pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- purposefully — having a purpose.
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- rs flip-flop — SR flip-flop
- scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
- scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.