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15-letter words containing p, r, e, f, c

  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perimeter fence — fence surrounding an area
  • person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • photorefractive — of or relating to a change in the index of refraction by spatial variations of the light intensity, as in a laser.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • picture-perfect — ideal in appearance,
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
  • premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • prenflo process — The PRENFLO process is a gasification process to convert substances such as oil, gas, coal, and refinery residue into synthetic gas.
  • prenotification — notice that is given or served prior to a specific date; advance notice.
  • present perfect — (in English) the tense form consisting of the present tense of have with a past participle and noting that the action of the verb was completed prior to the present, as I have finished.
  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • prince of peace — Jesus Christ, regarded by Christians as the Messiah. Isa. 9:6.
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
  • processed foods — foods that have been treated or prepared by a special method, esp in order to preserve them
  • proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
  • proper function — eigenfunction.
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
  • reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
  • reference strip — a strip of film used to help calculate and monitor the exposing and processing of photographs
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
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