10-letter words containing p, f
- nifedipine — A synthetic compound that acts as a calcium antagonist and is used as a coronary vasodilator in the treatment of cardiac and circulatory disorders.
- noiseproof — soundproof.
- non-profit — A non-profit organization is one which is not run with the aim of making a profit.
- nonprofits — Plural form of nonprofit.
- obpyriform — inversely pear-shaped; pear-shaped with the narrow end at the base.
- of a piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
- off-pricer — a seller of off-price merchandise.
- offputting — (uncommon) Alternative form of off-putting.
- offsprings — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- on pain of — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- oojamaflip — a thing whose name is temporarily forgotten
- open field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- open frame — a frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or a spare.
- open-faced — having a frank or ingenuous face.
- open-field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
- open-shelf — open-stack.
- outperform — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- pacificate — to pacify.
- pacificism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- pacificist — a person who is opposed to violence
- pacifistic — of or relating to pacifism or pacifists.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- page fault — (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
- page proof — a trial proof printed from type that has been made up in page form, usually after galley corrections have been made, but before plates are made. Compare proof (def 12).
- pale-faced — having a pale face
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- palmatifid — displaying palmate characteristics
- paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- paraffinic — of, noting, or characteristic of paraffin wax or a paraffin hydrocarbon.
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- party food — food that is served at parties; snacks
- passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- patient of — capable of bearing (fatigue, thirst, etc.)
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- paul flory — Paul John, 1910–85, U.S. chemist: pioneer in research on polymers; Nobel Prize 1974.
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- pelvic fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins on the lower surface of the body, corresponding to the hind limbs of a land vertebrate; ventral fin.
- pen-friend — A pen-friend is someone you write friendly letters to and receive letters from, although the two of you may never have met.
- peoplesoft — (application, company) A company selling web-based ERP systems. Originally PeopleSoft supplied human resource management systems, they now provide financial data management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, workforce management, and data analytics systems.
- perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- perfective — tending to make perfect; conducive to perfection.
- perficient — someone who or something that accomplishes or completes a task, etc
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- perforated — perforated.