15-letter words containing p, r, o, f
- make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
- mother of pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
- mother-of-pearl — a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
- multiple factor — polygene.
- negative profit — a financial loss
- no respecter of — If you say that someone or something is no respecter of a rule or tradition, you mean that the rule or tradition is not important to them.
- nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
- nonprofessorial — not professorial
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- offset printing — offset (def 6).
- out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
- over-performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
- part of fortune — the celestial longitude of the moon plus the celestial longitude of the ascendant minus the celestial longitude of the sun: said to connote an area of life through which one achieves emotional satisfaction.
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- passport office — an office which issues passports
- patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
- performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
- performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
- performing arts — dance, drama, music
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
- photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
- photorefractive — of or relating to a change in the index of refraction by spatial variations of the light intensity, as in a laser.
- pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
- plain of sharon — a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv
- platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
- platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
- platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
- point of honour — a circumstance, event, etc, that involves the defence of one's principles, social honour, etc
- posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- power amplifier — an amplifier for increasing the power of a signal.
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.