10-letter words containing p, i, f
- shrimpfish — any of several fishes of the family Centriscidae, inhabiting shallow waters from eastern Africa to Hawaii, having a compressed body covered with transparent plates.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- simplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- spider fly — an artificial fly having a hackle body, little or no tail, no wings, and unusually long legs, dressed to resemble a spider.
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- spillproof — (of a container) designed to prevent spilling.
- split flap — a flap that is located on the under surface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing and that splits away from the wing structure when rotated downward, producing an increase in lift or drag or both. Compare landing flap.
- spongiform — resembling a sponge, as in appearance or structure.
- spoondrift — spindrift.
- sport fish — a type of fish that is prized for the sport it gives the angler in its capture rather than for its value as food.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- spring for — to rise, leap, move, or act suddenly and swiftly, as by a sudden dart or thrust forward or outward, or being suddenly released from a coiled or constrained position: to spring into the air; a tiger about to spring.
- stainproof — resistant to stains
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- strip farm — a tract of land where strip cropping is done.
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- superfluid — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- swipe left — to move a finger from right to left across a touchscreen in order to dismiss an image
- thriftshop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
- top flight — the highest or most outstanding level, as in achievement or development: students in the top flight of their class.
- top-flight — the highest or most outstanding level, as in achievement or development: students in the top flight of their class.
- torporific — causing torpor.
- unpacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- unpaid-for — not paid for.
- unprofited — lacking profit or gain
- unprolific — not prolific or fertile; barren
- unpurified — not purified, not purged of impure matter
- unspecific — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
- unuplifted — not uplifted
- upflashing — flashing or flaring up
- uplift bra — a brassiere for lifting and supporting the breasts
- upliftment — to lift up; raise; elevate.
- vaporiform — in the form or state of vapour
- viperiform — resembling, or in the shape of, a viper
- whip graft — a graft prepared by cutting both the scion and the stock in a sloping direction and securing them by tying or taping.
- worshipful — feeling or showing worship.
- ypsiliform — having the shape of a 'Y'
- yuppie flu — Informal. chronic fatigue syndrome.
- yuppifying — Present participle of yuppify.