14-letter words containing p, r, e, t, f
- group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- horn of plenty — cornucopia.
- hyperefficient — more efficient than normal
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
- letter-perfect — knowing one's part, lesson, or the like, perfectly.
- life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
- mean free path — the average distance that a particle travels between successive collisions with other particles.
- multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
- of set purpose — with a specific end in view
- 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.
- outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- 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
- parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
- peltier effect — the change in temperature of either junction of a thermocouple when a current is maintained in the thermocouple and after allowance is made for a temperature change due to resistance.
- 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.
- perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
- perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
- perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
- perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
- performability — the quality of being performable
- personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- 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.
- platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.