12-letter words containing i, f, p
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
- point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- police force — police (def 1).
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
- post-fascist — of or relating to various right-wing political parties in Europe which espouse a modified form of fascism and which take part in constitutional politics
- post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
- powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
- prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
- prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
- preamplifier — a device in the amplifier circuit of a radio or phonograph that increases the strength of a weak signal for detection and further amplification.
- prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
- prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
- prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
- preformation — previous formation.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- premium fuel — fuel or gasoline which has a higher octane value and is more expensive than standard fuel
- prespecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- 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 freeze — temporary fixing of prices
- 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.
- 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.
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- prison fever — typhus.
- private life — the social or family life or personal relationships of an individual, esp of a person in the public eye, such as a politician or celebrity
- prizefighter — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
- profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
- proofreading — correction of text
- pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding