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14-letter words containing p, r, e, o, f

  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group of seven — G7.
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
  • horn of plenty — cornucopia.
  • house of peers — former name of the Japanese House of Councilors.
  • hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
  • indirect proof — an argument for a proposition that shows its negation to be incompatible with a previously accepted or established premise.
  • infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
  • loophole frame — a frame in the opening of a wall enclosing a window and some other opening.
  • lord of appeal — one of several judges appointed to assist the House of Lords in hearing appeals
  • marvel-of-peru — the four-o'clock, Mirabilis jalapa.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
  • nonproficiency — absence or lack of proficiency.
  • of set purpose — with a specific end in view
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • opinion former — Opinion formers are people who have a lot of influence over what the public thinks about things.
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • over-performed — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
  • parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
  • parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
  • people's front — popular front.
  • perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
  • pinxter flower — a variety of azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) with pink, sweet-smelling flowers, purplish-red at the base
  • platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
  • point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
  • police officer — any policeman or policewoman; patrolman or patrolwoman.
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