15-letter words containing f, t, p, a
- peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
- photoflood lamp — an incandescent tungsten lamp in which high intensity is obtained by overloading voltage: used in photography, television, etc.
- 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.
- phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
- 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
- pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
- popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
- 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.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- respecification — the act of specifying.
- rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
- seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-acceptance — the act of taking or receiving something offered.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.