13-letter words containing l, o, f, t
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
- palmification — the fertilization of date palms artificially
- parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
- patrifocality — the system or fact of being patrifocal
- perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
- 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.
- pontificality — a priestly role or office
- popular front — a coalition, usually temporary, of leftist and sometimes centrist political parties, formed against a common opponent, as fascism, and promoting social reform.
- 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.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- prolification — the production of offspring
- put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
- rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
- rational form — a quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.
- 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
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- 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.
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- rule of three — the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given.