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14-letter words containing n, a, f, o

  • 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.
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • pontifications — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • 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.
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • 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)
  • 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-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.
  • qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
  • quantification — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
  • 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
  • quinquefoliate — (of leaves) having or consisting of five leaflets
  • quizzification — mockery
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • 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.
  • rate of return — The rate of return on an investment is the amount of profit it makes, often shown as a percentage of the original investment.
  • re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • 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.
  • relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • 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.
  • route flapping — flapping router
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