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14-letter words containing i, n, f, o, p

  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • nonproficiency — absence or lack of proficiency.
  • nonspecificity — The state or condition of being nonspecific.
  • not-for-profit — nonprofit.
  • of the opinion — If someone is of the opinion that something is the case, that is what they believe.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • 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.
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
  • photofinishing — the act or occupation of developing films, printing photographs, etc.
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • pinxter flower — a variety of azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) with pink, sweet-smelling flowers, purplish-red at the base
  • point of honor — an issue that affects one's honor, reputation, etc.: It was a point of honor with him to avenge any insult to his family.
  • point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • pontifications — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • 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.
  • postfix syntax — postfix notation
  • potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
  • 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 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 warning — a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected
  • 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.
  • proxy conflict — a conflict between third parties, through whom enemies attack each other
  • recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
  • rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
  • saponification — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
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