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13-letter words containing l, o, e, f

  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • 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.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • 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.
  • play the fool — behave in a silly way
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
  • point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
  • police office — a geographical administrative division within an area patrolled by a police force
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • 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.
  • proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • public office — position in government
  • quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
  • recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
  • reel of three — (in Scottish country dancing) a figure-of-eight movement danced by three people
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • reflectometer — a device for measuring reflectance.
  • reflectometry — the study or science of reflectometer usage and design
  • reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
  • reformulation — to formulate again.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
  • relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
  • retroflection — a bending backward.
  • right to life — When people talk about an unborn baby's right to life, they mean that a baby has the right to be born, even if it has a severe disability or if its mother does not want it.
  • right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
  • robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
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