12-letter words containing f, o, r, e, s, p
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- presser foot — a forked, metal device on a sewing machine used for holding the fabric in place while stitching.
- prison fever — typhus.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
- professoress — a female professor
- 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.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
- proof stress — the load per unit area that a structure can withstand without being permanently deformed by more than a specified amount.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- purposefully — having a purpose.
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- redispose of — to dispose of again
- self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
- soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
- soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar