11-letter words containing p, r, e, o, f
- performance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- personified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personifies — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
- powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
- pre-confirm — to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- premodified — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- press proof — the last proof examined before matter goes to press.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- profiterole — a small cream puff with a sweet or savory filling, as of cream and chocolate sauce.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferate — spread
- proliferous — proliferating.
- prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- proofreader — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- provide for — support financially
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- reperformed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- repro proof — a proof, usually pulled on glossy paper, of a fidelity suitable for reproduction by photography for making a plate.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reptiliform — having the form or appearance of a reptile
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- showerproof — (of clothing, fabric, etc.) treated so as to resist rain; rainproof.
- soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
- speech form — linguistic form.
- spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns