14-letter words containing p, o, e

oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
oesophagoscope — Alternative form of esophagoscope.
of set purpose — with a specific end in view
of the opinion — If someone is of the opinion that something is the case, that is what they believe.
offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
omnipercipient — Perceiving everything.
omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
on one's plate — waiting to be done or dealt with
on the improve — improving
on the part of — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
on the rampage — behaving violently or destructively
on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
one fell swoop — a single hasty action or occurrence
one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
oophorectomies — Plural form of oophorectomy.
oophorectomize — to surgically remove (one or both ovaries)
opaque context — an expression in which the replacement of a term by another with the same reference may change the truth-value of the whole. John believes that Cicero was a Roman is opaque, since even though Cicero and Tully are the same person John may know that the given statement is true but not that Tully was a Roman
opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
open classroom — a spacious instructional area shared by several groups or classes in elementary school, permitting more individualized, less supervised project learning and movement of pupils from one activity to another.
open communion — a communion service in which members of all denominations can participate.
open deathtrap — (abuse) An abusive hackerism for the Santa Cruz Operation's Open DeskTop. The funniest part is that this was coined by SCO's own developers. Compare AIDX, Macintrash Nominal Semidestructor, ScumOS, sun-stools, HP-SUX.
open to debate — If you say that a matter is open to debate, you mean that people have different opinions about it, or it has not yet been firmly decided.
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.
open-reel tape — audiotape, usually 1/4 inch (64 mm) wide, wound on a single reel and requiring a separate take-up reel for playing or recording.
openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
openmindedness — Alternative form of open-mindedness.
openoffice.org — (project) (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
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.
operating room — a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. Abbreviation: OR.
operation code — (programming) (Always "op code" when spoken) The part or parts of a machine language instruction which determines what kind of action the computer should take, e.g. add, jump, load, store. In any particular instruction set certain fixed bit positions within the instruction word contain the op code, others give parameters such as the addresses or registers involved. For example, in a 32-bit instruction the most significant eight bits might be the op code giving 256 possible operations. For some instruction sets, certain values in the fixed bit positions may select a group of operations and the exact operation may depend on other bits within instruction word or subsequent words. When programming in assembly language, the op code is represented by a readable name called an instruction mnemonic.
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
operationalize — Put into operation or use.
ophthalmometer — an instrument for measuring the reflection of an image on the surface of the cornea and other capacities of the eye, used chiefly for determining the presence and degree of astigmatism.
ophthalmometry — the measurement and determination of the eye's defects and powers of refraction
ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
opinion former — Opinion formers are people who have a lot of influence over what the public thinks about things.
opisthocoelous — relating to vertebrae in which the centrum is convex and the posterior is concave
opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
oppressiveness — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.

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