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13-letter words containing f, r, i, p, e

  • perfectionate — to perfect; to make perfect
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perl profiler — (tool)   (pprof) A tool by Anthony Iano-Fletcher of Nottingham University, UK to profile, and collate data from, Perl scripts. Version: 1? Source posted on comp.lang.perl in mid-June 1993.
  • petrification — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
  • petty officer — navy: non-commissioned officer
  • photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • picture frame — mount for a picture
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • pommes frites — French fries
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
  • prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • preferability — more desirable.
  • preferred lie — a nearby position for a ball preferable to that where it actually landed and to which repositioning is sometimes allowed without loss of a stroke or strokes to the player.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
  • prefix syntax — prefix notation
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
  • prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • professoriate — a group of professors.
  • professorship — the office or post of a professor.
  • profit center — a segment of a business organization that has a profitable base independent of the business as a whole.
  • profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
  • profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
  • proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
  • referred pain — pain felt in an area remote from the site of origin.
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
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