17-letter words containing p, u, f, t
- procurator fiscal — In the Scottish legal system, the procurator fiscal is a public official who puts people on trial.
- pseudo-scientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- publicity officer — a person who is employed to get publicity for an organization, or to provide information about it
- put in a word for — to make favourable mention of (someone); recommend
- put one's feet up — relax
- put the finger on — to inform on or identify, esp for the police
- return of capital — A return of capital is a situation in which you receive back money that was previously invested.
- rough puff pastry — a rich flaky pastry made with butter and used for pie-crusts, flans, etc
- safety precaution — a precaution that is taken in order to ensure that something is safe and not dangerous
- self-perpetuating — continuing oneself in office, rank, etc., beyond the normal limit.
- self-purification — a natural process of purifying, as the ability of a body of water to rid itself of pollutants.
- self-reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- separating funnel — a large funnel having a tap in its output tube, used to separate immiscible liquids
- shutter-preferred — of or relating to a semiautomatic exposure system in which the photographer presets the shutter speed and the camera selects the aperture.
- spatial frequency — the measure of fine detail in an optical image in terms of cycles per millimetre
- specific humidity — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in air to the total mass of the mixture of air and water vapor.
- speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
- spiritus frumenti — whiskey.
- strike-slip fault — a geological fault on which the movement is along the strike of the fault
- sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
- sulphur butterfly — sulfur butterfly.
- take upon oneself — to take the responsibility for; accept as a charge
- the south pacific — the part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator
- trapdoor function — a function defined from data by means of a mathematical procedure in such a way that it is easy to obtain the function when the data are known, but when the procedure and data are not known it becomes very difficult to determine the original data: used in cryptography, where the data are the characters of the plain text, or message, and the trapdoor function is the cryptogram.
- unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
- unify corporation — (company) Developers of the Unify relational database. At one time, before Sybase, they were a competitor of Oracle, et al.
- wave-cut platform — a flat surface at the base of a cliff formed by erosion by waves