10-letter words containing p, e, a, f
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
- free space — unused memory or storage
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- funnel cap — any of various basidiomycetous fungi of the genus Clitocybe, characterized by the funnel-shaped caps and, usually, markedly decurrent gills
- grape fern — any of several ferns of the genus Botrychium, comprising several species having grapelike clusters of sporangia.
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half-empty — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- half-plane — the part of the plane on one side of a straight line of infinite length in the plane.
- half-plate — a size of plate measuring 61⁄2 × 41⁄4 inches
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- infraposed — placed beneath
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- lapidified — Simple past tense and past participle of lapidify.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- life plant — air plant (def 2).
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- maple leaf — a one-ounce gold coin of Canada showing a maple leaf on the reverse: traded for investment or as a collector's item.
- mein kampf — the autobiography (1925–27) of Adolf Hitler, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest.
- of a piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- open frame — a frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or a spare.
- open-faced — having a frank or ingenuous face.
- pacificate — to pacify.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- page fault — (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
- page proof — a trial proof printed from type that has been made up in page form, usually after galley corrections have been made, but before plates are made. Compare proof (def 12).
- pale-faced — having a pale face
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- patient of — capable of bearing (fatigue, thirst, etc.)
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- perforated — perforated.
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- pianoforte — a piano.
- pig farmer — sb who raises pigs for meat
- pilferable — capable of being pilfered