14-letter words containing p, r, e, f, n
- on the part of — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- open to offers — If you are open to offers, you are willing to do something if someone will pay you an amount of money that you think is reasonable.
- openoffice.org — (project) (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
- opinion former — Opinion formers are people who have a lot of influence over what the public thinks about things.
- outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paper fastener — split pin
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- penny dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
- penny-dreadful — a cheap, sensational novel of adventure, crime, or violence; dime novel.
- penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- people's front — popular front.
- perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
- pinxter flower — a variety of azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) with pink, sweet-smelling flowers, purplish-red at the base
- plantar reflex — a normal reflex flexion of the toes, especially in persons above one year of age, resulting from stroking the sole of the foot.
- point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
- popcorn flower — a plant, Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, of the borage family, native to the western U.S., having coiled clusters of small white flowers.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- pre-conference — a meeting for consultation or discussion: a conference between a student and his adviser.
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- preperformance — occurring before a performance
- press briefing — a meeting called by an organization, government, etc, to inform the press of something
- press fastener — snap fastener.
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
- printing frame — a shallow, boxlike device with a glass plate on one side and an opaque, removable back, for holding a negative firmly against printing paper in contact printing.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
- reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.