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15-letter words containing p, f

  • nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
  • nonprofessorial — not professorial
  • nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
  • nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
  • not to speak of — You can use not to speak of when adding something which your previous statement also applies to, or applies to even more than other things.
  • nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
  • off one's chump — insane; crazy
  • office politics — power play in the workplace
  • offset printing — offset (def 6).
  • on the point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
  • out of the loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
  • over-performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
  • pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • paraffin heater — a heater which is fuelled by paraffin
  • paraffin series — methane series
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • part of fortune — the celestial longitude of the moon plus the celestial longitude of the ascendant minus the celestial longitude of the sun: said to connote an area of life through which one achieves emotional satisfaction.
  • passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • patellar reflex — knee jerk.
  • patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
  • peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perimeter fence — fence surrounding an area
  • person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • 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.
  • photoflood lamp — an incandescent tungsten lamp in which high intensity is obtained by overloading voltage: used in photography, television, etc.
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • 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.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
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