14-letter words containing f, n, o
- off one's feed — to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
- off one's game — playing badly
- off one's head — If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.
- off one's nana — mad; insane
- off the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- off-line world — (jargon) A die-hard nethead term for non-computer-related experience. See also big room.
- 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
- old franconian — the Franconian language before 1100; Frankish.
- on firm ground — in a safe situation
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- 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 part of — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
- one fell swoop — a single hasty action or occurrence
- one's head off — loudly or excessively
- open to offers — If you are open to offers, you are willing to do something if someone will pay you an amount of money that you think is reasonable.
- 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.
- opinion former — Opinion formers are people who have a lot of influence over what the public thinks about things.
- organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
- osmoconformers — Plural form of osmoconformer.
- out from under — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
- 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.
- out of control — wild, unrestrained
- out of fashion — no longer popular
- out of nowhere — unexpectedly
- outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
- outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
- over the fence — unreasonable, unfair, or unjust
- over-confident — too confident.
- over-dignified — to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
- 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.
- overrefinement — excessive or unnecessary refinement.
- 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
- ozone-friendly — Ozone-friendly chemicals, products, or technology do not cause harm to the ozone layer.
- pacific salmon — any salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, especially the chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha.
- parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- 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.
- people's front — popular front.
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- photofinishing — the act or occupation of developing films, printing photographs, etc.
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons