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

health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
heart of stone — lack of compassion
heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
height of land — a watershed
hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.
holland finish — an oil and sizing or starch finish applied to cotton fabrics to increase their opacity and strength.
honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
horn of africa — north-east African region
house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
humidification — to make humid.
hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
in the face of — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
in the name of — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
in the wake of — the track of waves left by a ship or other object moving through the water: The wake of the boat glowed in the darkness.
instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
john atanasoff — John Vincent Atanasoff
land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
loophole frame — a frame in the opening of a wall enclosing a window and some other opening.
maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
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.
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.
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.
mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
north branford — a town in S Connecticut.
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 charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
off the shears — (of a sheep) newly shorn
on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
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 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 surface — to all appearances
one's head off — loudly or excessively
out of fashion — no longer popular
out of the ark — very old; out of date
out of the way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
out-of-the-way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).

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