8-letter words containing p, i, f
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- puckfist — a puffball fungus
- puffbird — any of several tropical American birds of the family Bucconidae, related to the barbets, having a large head with the feathers often fluffed out.
- pulsific — causing the pulse to increase
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- purified — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purifier — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- puriform — resembling pus; purulent.
- pyriform — pear-shaped.
- repacify — to pacify again
- repriefe — a reproof; reproach
- repurify — to purify again, make pure again
- rifampin — a semisynthetic broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 4 3 H 5 8 N 4 O 1 2 , used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, asymptomatic carriers of meningococcal disease, and leprosy.
- saponify — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- scarfpin — tiepin.
- shift up — When you shift up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
- shoplift — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- simplify — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- skip off — to leave work, school, etc, early or without authorization
- slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
- soapfish — any of several serranid fishes of the genus Rypticus, producing a body mucus that gives the skin a soapy quality, as R. saponaceus, inhabiting shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- spaewife — a woman who foretells the future
- specific — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
- spiffing — to reward (a salesperson) with a spiff.
- spin off — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spin-off — Commerce. a process of reorganizing a corporate structure whereby the capital stock of a division or subsidiary of a corporation or of a newly affiliated company is transferred to the stockholders of the parent corporation without an exchange of any part of the stock of the latter. Compare split-off (def 3), split-up (def 3).
- spinifex — any of several Australian grasses of the genera Spinifex, Plectrachne, or Triodia, having spiny seeds and stiff, sharp-pointed leaves that grow in dense masses.
- spirifer — any of various fossil brachiopods of the genus Spirifer having spirals on each side
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- spitfire — a person, especially a girl or woman, who is of fiery temper and easily provoked to outbursts.
- spoffish — officious or bustling
- spoilful — plundering
- spoofing — a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
- superfit — extremely fit
- superfix — a suprasegmental feature having an identifiable meaning or grammatical function, as the stress pattern that distinguishes the noun record from the verb record or the parallel falling stress patterns of blackbird and highchair, reflecting a parallel relationship between the elements.
- tipstaff — an attendant or crier in a court of law.
- typified — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
- uplifted — improved, as in mood or spirit.
- uplifter — a person or thing that uplifts.
- wipe off — remove by rubbing
- zip file — computer data in compressed format