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

  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • smooth dogfish — any of several requiem sharks having no spines in front of the dorsal fin, especially Mustelus canis, ranging along the American coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 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.
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • 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
  • stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
  • 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 better off — those with more money
  • the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
  • the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the heretofore — the past
  • the home front — the civilian population
  • the loony left — the extreme left
  • the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • 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
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
  • thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
  • to the tune of — a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • 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.
  • truth-function — a statement so constructed from other statements that its truth-value depends on the truth-values of the other statements rather than on their meanings.
  • turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.
  • turn of phrase — expression, wording
  • unthoughtfully — not thoughtfully; in an unthoughtful manner; thoughtlessly
  • 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.
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