14-letter words containing o, u, t, e, r, s
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
- front of house — restaurant
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
- groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- harbour master — an official in charge of a harbour
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- heart and soul — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- heterochronous — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- heterologously — In a heterologous manner.
- heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
- heterosexually — In a heterosexual way.
- heterosomatous — (of fish) having an abnormal or asymmetrical body type
- holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
- horse chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- horse-chestnut — a tree, Aesculus hippocastanum, native to the Old World, having digitate leaves and upright clusters of white flowers.
- hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
- household arts — activities such as sewing, cooking, etc, that are conducted in the running of a household
- housing market — property trade
- idolatrousness — The quality of being idolatrous.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- in one's court — in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- insubordinates — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurrectional — Pertaining to insurrection.
- interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
- interest group — a group of people drawn or acting together in support of a common interest or to voice a common concern: Political interest groups seek to influence legislation.
- interlocutions — Plural form of interlocution.
- interlocutress — A female interlocutor.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- interreligious — existing or communicating between different religions.
- intertriginous — (medicine) Of or relating to intertrigo.
- intracutaneous — within the skin.
- irresoluteness — The state of being irresolute.
- jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
- kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.