Words Starting P & Ending FS

• the final payment of a debt

• payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment

• the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

• a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

• a pretext for delay or inaction

• rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes

• a short light gust of air

• a light inflated pastry or puff shell

• exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin

• thick cushion used as a seat

• a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)

• forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth

• gathered for protruding fullness

• smoke and exhale strongly

• suck in or take (air)

• breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

• make proud or conceited

• praise extravagantly

• speak in a blustering or scornful manner

• to swell or cause to enlarge

• blow hard and loudly

• any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something

• a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it

• a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)

• (printing) an impression made to check for errors

• a trial photographic print from a negative

• the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something

• (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand

• make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset

• knead to reach proper lightness

• read for errors

• activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk

• make resistant (to harm)

• rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes

• someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• thick cushion used as a seat