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14-letter words containing c, o, f, e

  • of the essence — the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features: Freedom is the very essence of our democracy.
  • off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
  • off the record — making or affording a record.
  • off-the-record — not for publication; not to be quoted: a candidate's off-the-record remarks to reporters.
  • offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
  • offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
  • old-field colt — catch-colt (def 2).
  • olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
  • on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • openoffice.org — (project)   (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
  • osmoconformers — Plural form of osmoconformer.
  • out of context — If a statement or remark is quoted out of context, the circumstances in which it was said are not correctly reported, so that it seems to mean something different from the meaning that was intended.
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • over the fence — unreasonable, unfair, or unjust
  • over-confident — too confident.
  • over-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
  • overconfidence — too confident.
  • pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
  • parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
  • 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.
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
  • petty official — a minor official in government, etc
  • piece of eight — peso (def 4).
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • police officer — any policeman or policewoman; patrolman or patrolwoman.
  • popcorn flower — a plant, Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, of the borage family, native to the western U.S., having coiled clusters of small white flowers.
  • 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.
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • pre-conference — a meeting for consultation or discussion: a conference between a student and his adviser.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • 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.
  • public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
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