11-letter words containing p, f
- office park — a complex of office buildings located on land planted with lawns, trees, bushes, etc.
- officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- opera buffa — an Italian farcical comic opera originating in the 18th century and containing recitativo secco, patter songs, and ensemble finales.
- out of step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- outperforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outperform.
- overperform — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- p.p. factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
- pacific rim — area around Pacific Ocean
- pacifically — peaceably, mildly, calmly, or quietly.
- pacificator — to pacify.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- pain relief — techniques concerned with preventing or reducing pain
- palm family — the plant family Palmae (or Arecaceae; formerly, Palmaceae), characterized by chiefly tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having large compound leaves in featherlike or fanlike fronds, large clusters of small flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the palmettos, ornamental palms, and palms that are the source of carnauba wax, coconuts, dates, raffia, rattan, sago, and various oils.
- pan-african — of or relating to all African nations or peoples.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- paper knife — 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.
- papilliform — resembling a papilla.
- paraffinize — paraffin (def 4).
- paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- parfocalize — to make parfocal
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- parrot-fish — 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.
- pass off as — If you pass something off as another thing, you convince people that it is that other thing.
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- pasty-faced — having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion: an awkward, pasty-faced youth.
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
- pension off — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- perfect gas — ideal gas.
- perfectible — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
- perfectness — conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.
- perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- perfumeless — without perfume; not perfumed or wearing perfume
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- pfeffernuss — a small, usually ball-shaped cookie flavored with cinnamon, allspice, anise, etc. and with black pepper, made esp. during the Christmas season