15-letter words containing m, i, f, e
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- perimeter fence — fence surrounding an area
- peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
- platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- power amplifier — an amplifier for increasing the power of a signal.
- pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
- preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
- primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
- professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
- purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
- qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
- refamiliarizing — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
- retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
- rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
- riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
- rime suffisante — full rhyme.
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run-of-the-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
- scientific name — Latin term for sth
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- securities firm — a firm that deals in securities
- self fulfilment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- self-admittedly — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-commitment — the act of committing.
- self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- self-enrichment — an act of enriching.
- self-fulfilment — the act or fact of fulfilling one's ambitions, desires, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
- self-immolation — voluntary sacrifice or denial of oneself, as for an ideal or another person.
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
- self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- self-motivation — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-mutilation — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.