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12-letter words containing r, t, f

  • out-of-print — being no longer published; no longer printed or reprinted: a bookstore specializing in out-of-print books.
  • out-of-round — not perfectly round.
  • outer office — the reception area of an office, outside of the main working area
  • outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
  • outperformer — One who outperforms.
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
  • over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • overflow bit — (architecture)   A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
  • overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • parrot fever — psittacosis.
  • parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • past perfect — pluperfect.
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
  • perfect ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
  • perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
  • perfectivize — to make perfective.
  • perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
  • performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
  • perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
  • photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
  • pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • port of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • 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
  • potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
  • poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
  • prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
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