14-letter words containing f, o, r, s
- 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
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
- play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
- 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.
- portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- 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.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- purposefulness — having a purpose.
- quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- rafraichissoir — a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates.
- raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
- 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
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- 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.
- rest of esther — a book of the Old Testament Apocrypha consisting of verses in the Septuagint text of the book of Esther that are not in the Hebrew text
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- rip-off artist — a person who steals, cheats or swindles
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- 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.
- ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
- rules of order — the rules by which a legislative or deliberative assembly governs its proceedings; parliamentary law.
- run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.