14-letter words containing oe
- optoelectronic — the branch of electronics dealing with devices that generate, transform, transmit, or sense optical, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation, as cathode-ray tubes, electroluminescent and liquid crystal displays, lasers, and solar cells.
- outmanoeuvring — Present participle of outmanoeuvre.
- palaeoecologic — relating to palaeoecology
- paleoecologist — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
- paroemiography — the writing or collecting of proverbs
- pharmacopoeial — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
- pharmacopoeian — an individual who has expert knowledge of a pharmacopoeia
- photoelectrode — an electrode that, following the absorption of light, can initialize electrochemical transformations
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
- poetic licence — If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
- poetic license — license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
- roentgenograph — roentgenogram.
- roentgenometer — an instrument for measuring the intensity of x-rays.
- roentgenopaque — not permitting the passage of x-rays.
- roentgenoscope — a fluoroscope.
- shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
- small potatoes — a person or thing of little significance, importance, or value: His salary was small potatoes for an executive of his ability.
- socioeconomics — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
- socioeconomist — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
- spermatorrhoea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
- symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
- the joe blakes — the DT's
- the story goes — it is commonly said or believed
- thermoelectric — of, relating to, or involving the direct relationship between heat and electricity.
- thermoelectron — an electron emitted by an incandescent material.
- thromboembolic — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
- training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
- two-toed sloth — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
- unpoeticalness — the quality, state, or characteristic of being unpoetic