14-letter words containing f, o, n, s, e
- nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- nonspecificity — The state or condition of being nonspecific.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- 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 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
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- 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.
- osmoconformers — Plural form of osmoconformer.
- 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
- 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).
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
- 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.
- pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
- repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
- rose of sharon — Also called althea. a widely cultivated shrub or small tree, Hibiscus syriacus, of the mallow family, having showy white, reddish or purplish flowers.
- safe and sound — unharmed and well
- saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- sean o'faolain — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1900–91, Irish writer and teacher.
- self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.