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14-letter words containing of

  • fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
  • fireproof door — a door that is designed to prevent fire from spreading
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth of forth — an inlet of the North Sea in SE Scotland: spanned by a cantilever railway bridge 1600 m (almost exactly 1 mile) long (1889), and by a road bridge (1964)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
  • flower-of-jove — a white, woolly plant, Lychnis flos-jovis, of the pink family, having red or purple flowers in dense clusters.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
  • for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
  • force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
  • foreign office — the department of a government that handles foreign affairs.
  • forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
  • four of a kind — a set of four cards of the same denominations.
  • fourth of july — Independence Day.
  • free of charge — having no cost
  • fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
  • front of house — restaurant
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • game of chance — a game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather than by the skill of its players, as roulette.
  • garden of eden — Eden1
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group of seven — G7.
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • guard of honor — a guard specially designated for welcoming or escorting distinguished guests or for accompanying a casket in a military funeral.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
  • gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
  • gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
  • gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
  • gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
  • gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
  • hats off to sb — If you say 'Hats off to someone', you are expressing admiration for them.
  • health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
  • heart of stone — lack of compassion
  • heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
  • heteroflexible — (of a person) predominantly heterosexual but not exclusively so
  • holy of holies — a place of special sacredness.
  • honours of war — the honours granted by the victorious to the defeated, esp as of marching out with all arms and flags flying
  • horn of africa — north-east African region
  • horn of plenty — cornucopia.
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
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