13-letter words containing f, t, p
- preterperfect — the past perfect (grammatical) tense
- 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.
- 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 margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- prolification — the production of offspring
- pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
- put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- 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
- ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
- self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- site-specific — created, designed, or selected for a specific site: a site-specific sculpture.
- snap fastener — A snap fastener is a small metal object used to fasten clothes, made up of two parts which can be pressed together.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
- specification — the act of specifying.
- specificities — the quality or state of being specific.
- specrate_fp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
- speech defect — a disorder of speech
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
- sprint finish — the end of a long race in which competitors speed up as they approach the finish line
- staff captain — a person who assists the master of a large ocean passenger vessel, being especially responsible for safety apparatus, fire and lifeboat drills, etc.
- state of play — current situation
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
- subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
- sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
- sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superfortress — a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II.