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15-letter words containing p, e, t, o, f

  • 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.
  • photorefractive — of or relating to a change in the index of refraction by spatial variations of the light intensity, as in a laser.
  • phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • 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.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
  • 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.
  • post office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
  • post-office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
  • 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.
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • 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.
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
  • seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
  • 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-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-conception — self-concept.
  • self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
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