13-letter words containing p, e, r, f
- prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- profit center — a segment of a business organization that has a profitable base independent of the business as a whole.
- profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- referred pain — pain felt in an area remote from the site of origin.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
- self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
- self-exposure — the act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering: the sudden exposure of objects that were hidden under the blanket.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
- self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- snap fastener — A snap fastener is a small metal object used to fasten clothes, made up of two parts which can be pressed together.
- special offer — bargain
- specrate_fp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
- spider flower — cleome
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
- subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
- sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.