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11-letter words containing g, p, f

  • perfect gas — ideal gas.
  • pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
  • photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
  • pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
  • pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
  • pipefitting — a joint or connector, as an elbow, union, or tee, used in a pipe system.
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
  • pot of gold — the realization of all one's hopes and dreams; ultimate success, fulfillment, or happiness: to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
  • pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
  • proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
  • proxy fight — a contest between factions of stockholders in a company, in which each group attempts to gain control by soliciting signed proxy statements for sufficient votes.
  • puddingwife — a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
  • safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
  • spacefaring — space travel
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • spot fixing — the act of deliberately engineering an outcome within a sporting contest without attempting to alter the outcome of the contest itself
  • springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
  • sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
  • unprofiting — the lack of profit or gain
  • upliftingly — in an uplifting manner
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