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14-letter words containing o, s, t, e, n, r

  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • ondes martenot — an electronic keyboard instrument in which the frequency of an oscillator is varied to produce separate musical notes
  • one's thirties — the ages between 30–39
  • one-horse town — a small or obscure town
  • one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
  • open to offers — If you are open to offers, you are willing to do something if someone will pay you an amount of money that you think is reasonable.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • operating cost — The operating cost of a business, or a piece of equipment or machinery is the amount of money that it costs to run it.
  • operationalise — Alternative spelling of operationalize.
  • operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
  • operationalist — a person who adheres to operationalism
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
  • orient express — an express passenger train in service between Paris and Istanbul from 1883 until 1977, using various routes. Some or parts of the routes continue to be served by regular service and by rail tours.
  • ornamentations — Plural form of ornamentation.
  • orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
  • osmoregulation — the process by which cells and simple organisms maintain fluid and electrolyte balance with their surroundings.
  • osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
  • other expenses — Other expenses are expenses that do not relate to a company's main business.
  • otitis externa — inflammation of the external ear.
  • otitis interna — labyrinthitis.
  • outer garments — the garments that are worn over a person's other clothes
  • outrageousness — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
  • overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overdistention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
  • overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • overestimating — Present participle of overestimate.
  • overestimation — An excessive estimation.
  • overgenerosity — the quality of being too generous
  • overinvestment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
  • oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
  • oversensitized — to render sensitive.
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent process — (operating system)   The Unix process that created one or more other processes. Every process except process 0 is created when another process executes the fork system call. The process that invoked fork is the parent process, and the newly created process is the child process. Every process has one parent process, but can have many child processes. The kernel identifies each process by its process identifier (PID). Process 0 is a special process that is created when the system boots; after forking a child process (process 1), process 0 becomes the swapper process. Process 1, known as init, is the ancestor of every other process in the system and enjoys a special relationship with them.
  • pasteurization — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • paz estenssoro — Victor [beek-tawr] /ˈbik tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1907–2001, Bolivian economist and statesman: president 1952–56, 1960–64, 1985–89.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • pentecostarion — a service book of offices for the period from Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost.
  • people's front — popular front.
  • percutaneously — through the skin
  • peremptoriness — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
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