12-letter words containing f, u, r, p
- outperformer — One who outperforms.
- over-helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- oxford group — an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- premium fuel — fuel or gasoline which has a higher octane value and is more expensive than standard fuel
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- purposefully — having a purpose.
- push forward — keep advancing
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- run-of-paper — R.O.P.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
- spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- sulphur tuft — a poisonous basidiomycetous fungus, Hypholoma fasciculare, having a sulphurous yellow cap and found in clumps on and around broad-leaved trees
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
- trumpet-leaf — trumpets.