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

  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • 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-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.
  • queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
  • rafraichissoir — a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates.
  • raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
  • rate of growth — the rate at which an economy grows
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • 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.
  • sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
  • safe as houses — If you say that something or someone is as safe as houses, you mean that they are completely safe.
  • salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • school of arts — a public building in a small town, originally one used for adult education
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • sea of okhotsk — part of the NW Pacific, surrounded by the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin Island, and the E coast of Siberia. Area: 1 589 840 sq km (613 838 sq miles)
  • share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
  • shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • shoshone falls — waterfall on the Snake River, in S Ida.: c. 200 ft (61 m)
  • snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
  • software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
  • son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • stand-off half — a player who acts as a link between his scrum half and three-quarter backs
  • stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
  • take the floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • theater of war — the entire area in which ground, sea, and air forces may become directly employed in war operations, including the theater of operations and the zone of interior.
  • theatre of war — the area of air, sea and land that is directly involved in war
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • total fighting — a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used
  • touch football — an informal variety of football in which the touching, usually with both hands, of a ball-carrier by a member of the opposing team results in a down.
  • traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
  • tree of heaven — an Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having large oblong leaves and rank-smelling flowers, often planted as a shade tree.
  • turn of phrase — expression, wording
  • upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
  • vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
  • waltham forest — a borough of Greater London, England.
  • weatherproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherproof.
  • weatherproofer — a worker who weatherproofs houses and other buildings.
  • weight for age — the poundage assigned to be borne by a horse in a race, based on the age of the horse.
  • welfare mother — the mother of dependent children who receives government welfare benefits.
  • well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
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