14-letter words containing n, o, h, e

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.
of the opinion — If someone is of the opinion that something is the case, that is what they believe.
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 the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
oligomenorrhea — abnormally infrequent menstruation.
oligosynthetic — (linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
on home ground — If you say that someone is on their home ground, you mean that they are in or near where they work or live, and feel confident and secure because of this.
on one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
on one's honor — staking one's good name or one's truthfulness, trustworthiness, or reliability
on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
on tenterhooks — one of the hooks or bent nails that hold cloth stretched on a tenter.
on the average — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
on the back of — If you say that one thing happens on the back of another thing, you mean that it happens after that other thing and in addition to it.
on the downlow — not widely known
on the horizon — between land and sky
on the improve — improving
on the instant — immediately; without delay
on the knocker — promptly; at once
on the lookout — keeping watch
on the part of — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
on the rampage — behaving violently or destructively
on the rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
on the streets — earning a living as a prostitute
on the surface — to all appearances
on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
on the viretot — in a rush
on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
on the way out — If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
onchocerciasis — an infestation with filarial worms of the genus Onchocerca, common in tropical America and Africa, transmitted by black flies, and characterized by nodules under the skin, an itchy rash, eye lesions, and in severe cases, elephantiasis.
one's eighties — the ages between 80–89
one's head off — loudly or excessively
one's thirties — the ages between 30–39
one-hit wonder — a singer, composer or group that only ever has one successful piece
one-horse race — if a contest is described as a one-horse race, it is thought that one person or thing will definitely win it
one-horse town — a small or obscure town
one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
one-woman show — a show or performance performed by one woman
opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
open deathtrap — (abuse) An abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's Open DeskTop. The funniest part is that this was coined by SCO's own developers. Compare AIDX, Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor, ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX.
openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
ordinary share — British. a share of common stock.
organochlorine — Any of a large group of pesticides and other synthetic organic compounds with chlorinated aromatic molecules.
orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
orphan process — (operating system) A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)". Compare zombie.
orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.

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