14-letter words containing r, o, s, e, f
- master of arts — a master's degree given usually in a specific branch of the humanities or social sciences.
- maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
- meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- new forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
- nine-to-fivers — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- nondiversified — Not diversified.
- nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- observer force — a force deployed to an area of conflict to observe proceedings
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- of set purpose — with a specific end in view
- of your dreams — If you describe someone or something as the person or thing of your dreams, you mean that you consider them to be ideal or perfect.
- off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- off the shears — (of a sheep) newly shorn
- officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
- on the surface — to all appearances
- 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.
- osmoconformers — Plural form of osmoconformer.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
- oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- 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.
- people's front — popular front.
- perfidiousness — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- pinafore dress — a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater
- 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
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- processor farm — (computer, parallel) A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.