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13-letter words containing p, r, a, e, f

  • friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
  • fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
  • hassenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
  • heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
  • imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
  • infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
  • intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
  • map reference — information that identifies the point on a map where a particular place is located
  • nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
  • parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  • peace officer — a civil officer appointed to preserve the public peace, as a sheriff or constable.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
  • perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
  • perfectionate — to perfect; to make perfect
  • personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
  • petrification — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • picture frame — mount for a picture
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • platform game — a type of computer game that is played by moving a figure on the screen through a series of obstacles and problems
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • power forward — a forward valued chiefly for aggressive rebounding capability, rather than scoring, and thus a big, physically strong player.
  • power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
  • prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
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