12-letter words containing o, f, l, a, p
- phlox family — the plant family Polemoniaceae, characterized by herbaceous or sometimes shrubby plants having simple or compound leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including gilia, Jacob's-ladder, moss pink, and phlox.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
- poppy family — the plant family Papaveraceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having white, yellow, or reddish juice, alternate and often lobed or dissected leaves, showy, usually solitary flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bloodroot, creamcups, greater celandine, and poppies of the genera Papaver, Eschscholzia, Argemone, and others.
- port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
- portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
- potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
- prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
- prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
- prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- sloop of war — (formerly) a sailing or steam naval vessel having cannons on only one deck.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- spiflication — rough treatment
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- to fall open — If something falls open, it opens accidentally.
- to play fair — If you say that someone plays fair, you mean that they behave or act in a reasonable and honest way.
- to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
- toffee-apple — an apple fixed on a stick and coated with a thin layer of toffee
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.