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13-letter words containing l, f, r

  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overfertilize — to apply too much fertilizer to
  • overflow flag — overflow bit
  • overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
  • overflowingly — to an excessive degree
  • overinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
  • paraffin lamp — a lamp which is fuelled by paraffin
  • parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
  • parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  • patrifocality — the system or fact of being patrifocal
  • pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perl profiler — (tool)   (pprof) A tool by Anthony Iano-Fletcher of Nottingham University, UK to profile, and collate data from, Perl scripts. Version: 1? Source posted on comp.lang.perl in mid-June 1993.
  • personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • platform game — a type of computer game that is played by moving a figure on the screen through a series of obstacles and problems
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • popular front — a coalition, usually temporary, of leftist and sometimes centrist political parties, formed against a common opponent, as fascism, and promoting social reform.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • preferability — more desirable.
  • preferred lie — a nearby position for a ball preferable to that where it actually landed and to which repositioning is sometimes allowed without loss of a stroke or strokes to the player.
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • prolification — the production of offspring
  • proposal form — a form filled out by a person applying for insurance
  • quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • quarter-final — A quarter-final is one of the four matches in a competition which decides which four players or teams will compete in the semi-final.
  • quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
  • railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
  • rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
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