10-letter words containing p, f
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- petit four — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- petrifying — stunning or dazing with horror, fear, etc
- phenformin — a biguanide administered orally in the treatment of diabetes to lower blood concentrations of glucose; it has been largely superseded by metformin. Formula: C10H15N5
- phialiform — having a form like that of a saucer
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- photoflood — an incandescent tungsten lamp in which high intensity is obtained by overloading voltage: used in photography, television, etc.
- pianoforte — a piano.
- pig farmer — sb who raises pigs for meat
- pigged off — If you are feeling pigged off, you feel rather angry or unhappy.
- pilferable — capable of being pilfered
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pilot film — pilot (def 9).
- pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilot flag — the flag symbolizing the letter G in the International Code of Signals, flown by itself to request a pilot from a pilot service: a flag of three yellow and three blue vertical stripes.
- pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pine bluff — a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- pine finch — pine siskin.
- pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- ping-flood — (networking) To flood another user with ping requests.
- pink floyd — British rock group, formed in 1966: originally comprised Syd Barrett (1946–2006), Roger Waters (born 1944), Rick Wright (1945–2008), and Nick Mason (born 1945); Barrett was replaced by Dave Gilmour (born 1944) in 1968 and Waters left in 1986. Recordings include The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Wall (1979)
- pinnatifid — (of a leaf) pinnately cleft, with clefts reaching halfway or more to the midrib.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- pissed off — angry or annoyed.
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.
- plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- plant food — nourishment, as fertilizer or chemicals, for plants.
- plant life — vegetation, flora
- platterful — a heaped plate or platter
- play false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- playfellow — a playmate.
- pluperfect — Grammar. perfect with respect to a point of reference in past time, as had done in He had done it when I came. designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning, as Latin portāveram “I had carried.”.
- plus-fours — Plus-fours are short wide trousers fastened below the knees which people used to wear when hunting or playing golf.
- poculiform — having the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- polish off — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- polyolefin — any of a group of thermoplastic, stiff, light, and hard polymers obtained from the polymerization of simple olefins like propylene, used for injection molding, mostly in the automotive and appliance industries.
- pomace fly — vinegar fly.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontifices — plural of pontifex.
- poop staff — ensign staff.