15-letter words containing o, p, e, n, t, f
- not to speak of — You can use not to speak of when adding something which your previous statement also applies to, or applies to even more than other things.
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- offset printing — offset (def 6).
- on the point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- part of fortune — the celestial longitude of the moon plus the celestial longitude of the ascendant minus the celestial longitude of the sun: said to connote an area of life through which one achieves emotional satisfaction.
- patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
- perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
- performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
- pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
- 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.
- position effect — the alteration in the expression of a gene or genetic region due to its relocation within the genome as a result of inversion or translocation.
- pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
- prefix notation — (language) (Or "prefix syntax") One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in prefix notation the function precedes all its operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "(+ 1 2)". A few languages (e.g., lisp) have strictly prefix syntax, many more employ prefix notation in combination with infix notation. The opposite, postfix notation, is somewhat rarer.
- preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
- preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- prenotification — notice that is given or served prior to a specific date; advance notice.
- present oneself — to appear, esp at a specific time and place
- preverification — the state of being verified.
- price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
- printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
- proper function — eigenfunction.
- pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
- put into effect — law, rule: enforce
- put oneself out — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- respecification — the act of specifying.
- self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- self-conception — self-concept.
- self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
- self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- self-perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-protection — protection of oneself or itself.