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12-letter words containing p, o, r, t, f

  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
  • note-perfect — (of a singer or musician) able to sing or play without making any errors
  • office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
  • 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.
  • out of print — of, for, or comprising newspapers and magazines: print media.
  • 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.
  • paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • parrot fever — psittacosis.
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • 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.
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • 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
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
  • pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
  • poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • presser foot — a forked, metal device on a sewing machine used for holding the fabric in place while stitching.
  • prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
  • professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
  • proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
  • profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
  • profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
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