15-letter words containing p, e, l, f
- fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
- fresnel biprism — biprism.
- full employment — all of workforce is employed
- full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
- funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- go up in flames — be burned
- good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
- grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
- help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- infeasible path — dead code
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- isle of sheppey — an island in SE England, off the N coast of Kent in the Thames estuary: separated from the mainland by The Swale, a narrow channel. Chief towns: Sheerness, Minster. Pop: 37 852 (2001 est). Area: 80 sq km (30 sq miles)
- judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
- keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
- life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
- low pass filter — (electronics, graphics) A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
- low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
- make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
- make capital of — to get advantage from
- mother of pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
- mother-of-pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
- multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
- multiple factor — polygene.
- nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
- nonprofessorial — not professorial
- nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- office politics — power play in the workplace
- out of the loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- patellar reflex — knee jerk.
- pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance