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11-letter words containing p, o, f

  • low-profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
  • make up for — compensate
  • microfloppy — Alternative spelling of micro-floppy.
  • midriff top — a woman's blouse that exposes her midriff
  • mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
  • mothproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of mothproof.
  • mothproofer — an agent that prevents moths from destroying materials or garments
  • naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
  • no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
  • nonspecific — Not detailed or exact; general.
  • off the map — no longer important or in existence (esp in the phrase wipe off the map)
  • off the top — from gross income
  • off-putting — provoking uneasiness, dislike, annoyance, or repugnance; disturbing or disagreeable.
  • off-the-peg — ready-to-wear.
  • offer price — cost of sth being offered for sale
  • 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.
  • pacificator — to pacify.
  • page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
  • papilliform — resembling a papilla.
  • 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.
  • patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
  • photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
  • pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
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