11-letter words containing p, r, o, f, s
- 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.
- pierrefonds — a former city in S Quebec, Canada, now part of Montreal.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- 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
- prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- profits tax — tax charged on the profits made by a company, individual, etc
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferous — proliferating.
- 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
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- 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.
- scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- 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
- ship of war — warship.
- 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.
- sparrowfart — the very early morning
- 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
- spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
- spiriferous — having a spire or spiral parts.
- splashproof — resistant to splashing
- spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
- sporiferous — bearing spores.
- stipitiform — having the form of a stipe.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- thornproofs — garments that resist penetration by thorns
- thrift shop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
- unprofessed — not professed, not openly declared
- unreposeful — characterized by a lack of repose or rest
- up for sale — If a property or company is up for sale, its owner is trying to sell it.
- waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
- wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.