14-letter words containing o, f, s, a
- bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
- break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
- breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
- breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
- breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
- careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
- carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
- case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
- catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
- certifications — Plural form of certification.
- chapel of ease — a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
- chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
- clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
- class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
- classification — A classification is a division or category in a system which divides things into groups or types.
- classificatory — the act of classifying.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- confessionally — in a confessional manner
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- confrontations — Plural form of confrontation.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- crash for cash — denoting a type of insurance fraud in which people bring about road accidents to ensure that a substantial claim is made
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- cross-platform — (software, hardware) A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cuyahoga falls — a city in NE Ohio, near Akron.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- disaffiliation — The termination of an affiliation; the act of ceasing to be associated with something.
- disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.