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14-letter words containing f, o

  • make a hash of — a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.
  • make a joke of — If you make a joke of something, you laugh at it even though it is in fact rather serious or sad.
  • make a meal of — to perform (a task) with unnecessarily great effort
  • make a muck of — to ruin or spoil
  • make an end of — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • male-to-female — noting or relating to a person who was born male but whose gender identity and gender expression is female.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • man of galilee — Jesus.
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • man of sorrows — a person alluded to by Isaiah (Isa. 53:3) and interpreted as being the Messiah
  • managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
  • manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
  • mansard (roof) — a roof with two slopes on each of the four sides, the lower steeper than the upper
  • marvel-of-peru — the four-o'clock, Mirabilis jalapa.
  • master of arts — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the humanities or social sciences.
  • matter-of-fact — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
  • maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
  • meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
  • meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
  • medal of honor — The Medal of Honor is a medal that is given to members of the U.S. armed forces who have shown special courage or bravery in battle.
  • metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
  • methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
  • methyl formate — a colorless, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 2 H 4 O 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a solvent.
  • microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • microsoft mail — (messaging, tool)   (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
  • microsoft word — (text, tool, product)   A popular word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite. The original Word (versions 1.0 to 4.?/5.0?) was originally text-based (non-GUI) and ran under MS-DOS. Then Microsoft released Word for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Later they produced new versions for each OS, both numbered 6.0.
  • mid wicket off — mid off.
  • miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
  • misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
  • molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
  • moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
  • mongolian fold — epicanthus.
  • moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
  • moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed
  • morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
  • morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
  • mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mouths to feed — family members, dependents
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
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