12-letter words containing p, o, f
- non-specific — Non-specific medical conditions or symptoms have more than one possible cause.
- nonperformer — a person or thing that is not performing well or properly.
- note-perfect — (of a singer or musician) able to sing or play without making any errors
- off the pace — behind the leader; out of first place
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- office space — part of a building for business use
- offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset press — a printing press used in the offset process, whereby a printing the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- oil platform — An oil platform is a structure that is used when getting oil from the ground under the sea.
- opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
- opt out (of) — to choose not to be in or continue with (some activity, organization, etc.)
- optical diff — vdiff
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- out of plumb — not vertical
- out of print — of, for, or comprising newspapers and magazines: print media.
- out of shape — person: unfit
- out of tempo — not in tempo
- out-of-print — being no longer published; no longer printed or reprinted: a bookstore specializing in out-of-print books.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outperformer — One who outperforms.
- over-helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- overflow pdl — (jargon) The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
- oversimplify — make too simple
- oxford group — an organization founded at Oxford University in 1921 by Frank Buchman, advocating absolute morality in public and private life.
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pacification — to pacify.
- pack of lies — false account
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- panification — the making of bread
- paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- paraffin-oil — a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
- parrot fever — psittacosis.
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- penny loafer — a loafer with a slot on the vamp that can hold a coin, usually a penny.
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.