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12-letter words containing f, o, r, p, e

  • paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • parrot fever — psittacosis.
  • 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 flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • 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
  • pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
  • penny loafer — a loafer with a slot on the vamp that can hold a coin, usually a penny.
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
  • performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
  • perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
  • personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
  • pilfer-proof — (of a supply, stock, container, etc) protected from or not susceptible to pilfering
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • 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.
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • police force — police (def 1).
  • 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
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • 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).
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • 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.
  • prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
  • 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.
  • problem-free — without problems
  • 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.
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