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12-letter words containing p, r, o, f, s

  • microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
  • offset press — a printing press used in the offset process, whereby a printing the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
  • oversimplify — make too simple
  • pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
  • perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
  • personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
  • presser foot — a forked, metal device on a sewing machine used for holding the fabric in place while stitching.
  • prison fever — typhus.
  • pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
  • pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
  • professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
  • professoress — a female professor
  • professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
  • profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
  • profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
  • prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
  • proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
  • proof stress — the load per unit area that a structure can withstand without being permanently deformed by more than a specified amount.
  • protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
  • pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • purposefully — having a purpose.
  • push forward — keep advancing
  • pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
  • pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
  • redispose of — to dispose of again
  • rs flip-flop — SR flip-flop
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • scorpion fly — 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.
  • scorpionfish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
  • scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
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