15-letter words containing f, t, p, a, r
- low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
- mother of pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
- mother-of-pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
- multiple factor — polygene.
- negative profit — a financial loss
- out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
- pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- paraffin heater — a heater which is fuelled by paraffin
- part of fortune — the celestial longitude of the moon plus the celestial longitude of the ascendant minus the celestial longitude of the sun: said to connote an area of life through which one achieves emotional satisfaction.
- passport office — an office which issues passports
- patellar reflex — knee jerk.
- patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
- perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
- performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
- photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
- photorefractive — of or relating to a change in the index of refraction by spatial variations of the light intensity, as in a laser.
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
- platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
- platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
- platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
- prefix notation — (language) (Or "prefix syntax") One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in prefix notation the function precedes all its operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "(+ 1 2)". A few languages (e.g., lisp) have strictly prefix syntax, many more employ prefix notation in combination with infix notation. The opposite, postfix notation, is somewhat rarer.
- preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
- preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- prenotification — notice that is given or served prior to a specific date; advance notice.
- preverification — the state of being verified.
- price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
- primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.