11-letter words containing p, e, r, f
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- pfeffernuss — a small, usually ball-shaped cookie flavored with cinnamon, allspice, anise, etc. and with black pepper, made esp. during the Christmas season
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- pilferingly — in the manner of a pilferer
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pipe fitter — a person who installs and repairs pipe systems.
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
- powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
- prayer flag — a flag stamped with printed prayers, used by Himalayan Buddhists, who believe that its fluttering sends out the prayers inscribed on it.
- prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- pre-confirm — to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
- pre-defense — resistance against attack; protection: Two more regiments are needed for the defense of the city.
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
- prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- preferredly — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- premodified — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- press proof — the last proof examined before matter goes to press.
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- prima facie — at first appearance; at first view, before investigation.
- prime field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- profiterole — a small cream puff with a sweet or savory filling, as of cream and chocolate sauce.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferate — spread
- proliferous — proliferating.
- prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors