14-letter words containing e
- occupancy rate — The occupancy rate at a hotel is the number of available rooms that are occupied over a period of time.
- oceanic trench — a long narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone
- oceanographers — Plural form of oceanographer.
- octave coupler — a mechanism on an organ and on some harpsichords that enables keys or pedals an octave apart to be played simultaneously
- octodecillions — Plural form of octodecillion.
- ocularcentrism — The privileging of vision over the other senses.
- odd-even check — parity check.
- oehlenschläger — Adam Gottlob (ˈadam ˈɡɔtlɔp). 1779–1850, Danish romantic poet and dramatist
- oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
- oesophagoscope — Alternative form of esophagoscope.
- oestrous cycle — a hormonally controlled cycle of activity of the reproductive organs in many female mammals. The follicular stage (growth of the Graafian follicles, thickening of the lining of the uterus, secretion of oestrogen, and ovulation, is succeeded by the luteal phase (formation of the corpus luteum and secretion of progesterone), followed by regression and a return to the first stage
- of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
- 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 the essence — the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features: Freedom is the very essence of our democracy.
- of the opinion — If someone is of the opinion that something is the case, that is what they believe.
- 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 one's feed — to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
- off one's game — playing badly
- off one's head — If you say that someone is off their head, you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous.
- off one's nana — mad; insane
- off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- off the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- off the record — making or affording a record.
- off the shears — (of a sheep) newly shorn
- off-line world — (jargon) A die-hard nethead term for non-computer-related experience. See also big room.
- off-the-record — not for publication; not to be quoted: a candidate's off-the-record remarks to reporters.
- offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
- 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.
- office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
- officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
- oil the wheels — to make things run smoothly
- old line state — Maryland (used as a nickname).
- old low german — the language of the German lowlands before c1100. Abbreviation: OLG.
- old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
- old school tie — a necktie striped in the colors of a specific English public school, especially as worn by a graduate to indicate his educational background.
- old-field colt — catch-colt (def 2).
- old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
- old-time dance — a formal or formation dance, such as the lancers
- oleaginousness — The state or condition of being oleaginous; oiliness, unctuousness.
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- oligocythaemia — a condition in which a person lacks red blood cells
- oligomenorrhea — abnormally infrequent menstruation.
- oligosynthetic — (linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
- omega-c baryon — a neutral baryon having a mass 5292 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 6.4 X 10 -14 seconds.
- omnibenevolent — All-loving, or infinitely good, usually in reference to a deity or supernatural being, for example, 'God'. Its use is often with regards to the divine triad, whereby a deity is described to be simultaneously omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. This triad is used especially with the Christian god, Yahweh.
- omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
- omnibus volume — a collection of works by one author or several works on a similar topic, reprinted in one volume
- omnipercipient — Perceiving everything.
- omnivorousness — eating both animal and plant foods.