14-letter words containing s, f, e, r
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
- oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paper fastener — split pin
- paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
- people's front — popular front.
- perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
- perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
- perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
- play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- press briefing — a meeting called by an organization, government, etc, to inform the press of something
- press fastener — snap fastener.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- processor farm — (computer, parallel) A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- rafferty rules — no rules at all
- raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
- redear sunfish — a freshwater sunfish, Lepomis microlophos, of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern states, having the gill cover margined with scarlet.
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection