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

  • on the rampage — behaving violently or destructively
  • on the rebound — to bound or spring back from force of impact.
  • on the streets — earning a living as a prostitute
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
  • on the viretot — in a rush
  • on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
  • one's thirties — the ages between 30–39
  • one-hit wonder — a singer, composer or group that only ever has one successful piece
  • one-horse town — a small or obscure town
  • 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.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
  • orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.
  • orthoselection — orthogenesis (def 1a).
  • 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.
  • out of nowhere — unexpectedly
  • over the fence — unreasonable, unfair, or unjust
  • overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
  • paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
  • paleontography — the formal description of fossils
  • parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • perhydrogenate — to hydrogenate as completely as possible.
  • permanent echo — a radar signal reflected to a radar station on the ground by a building or other fixed object.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phenobarbitone — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
  • philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • phonoreception — the physiological perception of sound.
  • phosphoprotein — a protein, as casein or ovalbumin, in which one or more hydroxyl groups of serine, threonine, or tyrosine are hydroxylated.
  • phosphorescent — exhibiting phosphorescence.
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • photoreception — the physiological perception of light.
  • photorecording — the act of making photographic records, especially of documents.
  • photoreduction — a reduction reaction induced by light.
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
  • porphyrogenite — a prince born after his father has succeeded to the throne
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
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