11-letter words containing of
- officiously — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- offscouring — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- offset well — An offset well is a wellbore which is close to a proposed well, and which provides information for planning the proposed well.
- offset-line — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- oil of cade — a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- on the hoof — (of livestock) alive
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out of line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- out of luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- out of step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- out of sync — out of synchronization (with)
- out of time — having passed a deadline
- out of town — of, relating to, or from another city or town: We're expecting out-of-town visitors tomorrow.
- out of true — not properly set, adjusted, aligned, etc.; inexact
- out of turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- out of work — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- out-of-body — of, relating to, or characterized by the dissociative sensation of perceiving oneself from an external vantage point, as though the mind or soul has left the body and is acting on its own: an alleged out-of-body experience.
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out-of-door — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- out-of-town — of, relating to, or from another city or town: We're expecting out-of-town visitors tomorrow.
- oval office — the office of the president of the United States, located in the White House.
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- pass off as — If you pass something off as another thing, you convince people that it is that other thing.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- pension off — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
- pot of gold — the realization of all one's hopes and dreams; ultimate success, fulfillment, or happiness: to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
- press proof — the last proof examined before matter goes to press.
- profanation — the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
- profanatory — tending to desecrate; profaning.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- profiterole — a small cream puff with a sweet or savory filling, as of cream and chocolate sauce.
- profits tax — tax charged on the profits made by a company, individual, etc
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- proofreader — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
- repro proof — a proof, usually pulled on glossy paper, of a fidelity suitable for reproduction by photography for making a plate.
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.