9-letter words containing p, f, a
- picofarad — one trillionth of a farad. Abbreviation: pF.
- pie-faced — having a broad, flat face and, sometimes, a vacuous or stupid expression.
- pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
- plan file — (operating system) On Unix systems that support finger, the ".plan" file in a user's home directory is displayed when the user is fingered. This feature was originally intended to be used to keep potential fingerers apprised of one's location and near-future plans, but has been turned almost universally to humorous and self-expressive purposes (like a sig block). See also Hacking X for Y. A later innovation in plan files was the introduction of "scrolling plan files" which are one-dimensional animations made using only the printable ASCII character set, carriage return and line feed, avoiding terminal specific escape sequences, since the finger command will (for security reasons; see letterbomb) not pass the escape character. Scrolling .plan files have become art forms in miniature, and some sites have started competitions to find who can create the longest running, funniest, and most original animations. A compiler (ASP) is available on Usenet for producing them. Typical animation components include: See also twirling baton.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- play safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
- playfully — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- poliakoff — Stephen. born 1952, British playwright and film director; work includes the stage plays Breaking the Silence (1984) and Blinded by the Sun (1996) and the television serials The Lost Prince (2003), Friends and Crocodiles (2005), and Dancing on the Edge (2013)
- poor farm — a farm maintained at public expense for the housing and support of paupers.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- powfagged — exhausted
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- prayerful — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- prefabbed — prefabricated.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prefatory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- preformat — to format in advance
- pro forma — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- proformas — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
- proofread — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- puff-ball — any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.
- puftaloon — a fried scone
- puppy fat — Puppy fat is fat that some children have on their bodies when they are young but that disappears when they grow older and taller.
- rainproof — impervious to rain; keeping out or unaffected by rain: a rainproof cover; a rainproof coat.
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- soft-soap — Informal. to cajole; flatter.
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- spark off — cause, provoke