9-letter words containing i, f, p
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- pickproof — (of a lock) designed so that it cannot be picked.
- picofarad — one trillionth of a farad. Abbreviation: pF.
- pie-faced — having a broad, flat face and, sometimes, a vacuous or stupid expression.
- pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
- pig's fry — the heart, liver, lights, and sweetbreads of a pig cooked, esp fried, together
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pinchfist — a miser
- pisciform — shaped like a fish.
- pitch for — If someone is pitching for something, they are trying to persuade other people to give it to them.
- pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pitifully — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
- plan file — (operating system) On Unix systems that support finger, the ".plan" file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near-future plans, but has been turned almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a sig block). See also Hacking X for Y. A later innovation in plan files was the introduction of "scrolling plan files" which are one-dimensional animations made using only the printable ASCII character set, carriage return and line feed, avoiding terminal specific escape sequences, since the finger command will (for security reasons; see letterbomb) not pass the escape character. Scrolling .plan files have become art forms in miniature, and some sites have started competitions to find who can create the longest running, funniest, and most original animations. A compiler (ASP) is available on Usenet for producing them. Typical animation components include: See also twirling baton.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- plightful — filled with distress
- point off — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- poliakoff — Stephen. born 1952, British playwright and film director; work includes the stage plays Breaking the Silence (1984) and Blinded by the Sun (1996) and the television serials The Lost Prince (2003), Friends and Crocodiles (2005), and Dancing on the Edge (2013)
- pollyfish — parrotfish.
- pond life — the animals that live in ponds
- pontifice — a priest in ancient Rome
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- portfolio — a flat, portable case for carrying loose papers, drawings, etc.
- portofino — a village in NW Italy, SE of Genoa: tourist resort.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- predefine — to define in advance
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prefigure — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- prefilled — filled in advance
- prefilter — any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- preinform — to supply with information beforehand: He preinformed the newspapers of his decision.
- premodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- press fit — a type of fit for mating parts, usually tighter than a sliding fit, used when the parts do not have to move relative to each other
- pretypify — to foreshadow or prefigure the type of: The father's personality pretypified his son's.
- prix fixe — a fixed price charged for any meal chosen from the variety listed on the menu.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.