14-letter words containing e, t, h, a, n, o
- on the surface — to all appearances
- on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
- on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
- on the way out — If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
- open deathtrap — (abuse) An abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's Open DeskTop. The funniest part is that this was coined by SCO's own developers. Compare AIDX, Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor, ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX.
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
- orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
- owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- paint the town — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
- palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
- palaeethnology — the study of prehistoric man
- paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
- paleontography — the formal description of fossils
- parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
- permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phenobarbitone — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
- phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
- phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
- philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
- pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
- pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
- pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
- project athena — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
- punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
- put on the map — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- put on the pan — to criticize severely
- put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
- radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy