11-letter words containing p, u, f
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pfeffernuss — a small, usually ball-shaped cookie flavored with cinnamon, allspice, anise, etc. and with black pepper, made esp. during the Christmas season
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plentifully — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
- powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
- powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
- prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferous — proliferating.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- public life — public service as an elected or appointed government official.
- puddingwife — a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
- puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
- puffed rice — a type of puffed rice grain that is commonly used in breakfast cereals and snacks
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- pushfulness — the quality of being offensively assertive or forceful
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- putty knife — a tool for puttying, having a broad flexible blade.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- snap out of — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spiriferous — having a spire or spiral parts.
- spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
- sporiferous — bearing spores.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- subspecific — of, relating to, or of the nature of a subspecies.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superfatted — (of soap) containing excess fat that has not been converted into soap by saponification
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superficies — the surface, outer face, or outside of a thing.
- superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
- superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.