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13-letter words containing l, o, f

  • 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.
  • patrifocality — the system or fact of being patrifocal
  • pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
  • 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.
  • 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
  • public office — position in government
  • 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
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
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