13-letter words containing u, f, o
- noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
- nonmeaningful — Not meaningful.
- nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
- nonuniformity — (uncountable) The condition of being nonuniform.
- not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
- nuclear force — strong interaction
- nullification — an act or instance of nullifying.
- oblique fault — a fault that runs obliquely to, rather than parallel to or perpendicular to, the strike of the affected rocks
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- oeil-de-boeuf — a comparatively small round or oval window, as in a frieze.
- off one's nut — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- off soundings — in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
- off with you! — go away! depart!
- off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
- office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
- officiousness — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
- on account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
- open fracture — compound fracture.
- out of action — If someone or something is out of action, they are injured or damaged and cannot work or be used.
- out of bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- out of danger — no longer at risk
- out of humour — in a bad mood
- out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
- out of office — (of a government) out of power
- out of pocket — small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
- out of season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out-of-pocket — paid out in cash or from one's own financial resources and sometimes reimbursed: My out-of-pocket travel expenses included taking business clients to dinner.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
- out-performed — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
- owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
- parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.