12-letter words containing g, p, f
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pettifogging — You can describe an action or situation as pettifogging when you think that unnecessary attention is being paid to unimportant, boring details.
- pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
- pipe fitting — a joint or connector, as an elbow, union, or tee, used in a pipe system.
- powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
- prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
- price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
- prizefighter — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
- proofreading — correction of text
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- safe passage — journey completed without danger
- safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- space flight — journey into outer space
- spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- 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)
- spin fishing — spinning (def 3).
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- tempus fugit — time flies
- top grafting — grafting in the top, as of a tree, in order to replace existing branches with those of a more desired variety or form.
- topping lift — a line for raising and supporting a spar, as a yard or boom.
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- unperforming — not performing
- up for grabs — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.