18-letter words containing on

on the danger list — critically ill in hospital
on the ragged edge — precariously close to loss of self-control, mental stability, etc.
on the strength of — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
on your conscience — If you have something on your conscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong.
once in a lifetime — extremely rarely
one false move and — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
one of sb's number — One of your number is a member of your group.
one way or another — somehow, by some means
one's heart bleeds — used to express sympathetic grief, but often used ironically
one's native heath — the place of one's birth or childhood
one's number is up — one is finished; one is ruined or about to die
one-banana problem — (jargon, abuse) At computer installations where the computers have operators for routine administrivia, the programmers and hardware people tend to look down on the operators and claim that a trained monkey could do their job. The incentives offered to said monkeys would then describe the difficulty of a task. A one-banana problem is simple; hence, "It's only a one-banana job at the most; what's taking them so long?" See also Infinite-Monkey Theorem.
operation overlord — the codename for the Allied invasion (June 1944) of northern France
operationalisation — Alternative spelling of operationalization.
operationalization — The act or process of operationalizing.
operations manager — business director
optimum population — a population that is sufficiently large to provide an adequate workforce with minimal unemployment
oracle corporation — (company) The world's leading supplier of information management software. The company, worth $2 billion, offers its products, along with related consulting, education and support services in more than 90 countries around the world. Oracle is best known for its database management systems vendor and relational DBMS products. Oracle develops and markets Oracle Media Server and the Oracle7 family of software products for database management; Co-operative Development Environment and Oracle Co-operative Applications Oracle software runs on personal digital assistants, set-top boxs, IBM PCs, workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel computers. Oracle bought Sun Microsystems on 2009-04-20. See also Adaptable User Interface, Bookviewer, CASE*Method, Component Integration Laboratories, DDE Manager, Online Media, Oracle Card, Oracle*CASE, siod. Address: Redwood Shores, CA, USA.
oral contraceptive — birth-control pill.
organization chart — a diagrammatic representation showing how departments or divisions in an organization, as a large corporation, are related to one another along lines of authority.
organized religion — institutionalized religion, usually with a hierarchical clergy and rules to govern the means by which adherents participate
orientation course — induction into sth
osteoradionecrosis — bone tissue death induced by radiation.
out of circulation — If someone is out of circulation, they do not appear in public or at social gatherings for a period of time. You can also say that someone is out of circulation when they are in prison.
out of one's depth — a dimension taken through an object or body of material, usually downward from an upper surface, horizontally inward from an outer surface, or from top to bottom of something regarded as one of several layers.
out of one's hands — no longer one's responsibility
out of one's skull — foolish; silly
over and done with — If you say that something is over and done with, you mean that it is completely finished and you do not have to think about it any more.
over the long term — in the future
over-conscientious — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
over-extrapolation — to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
over-pronunciation — to pronounce (a word, syllable, etc.) in an exaggerated, affected, or excessively careful manner.
overcapitalization — The state of being overcapitalized.
overgeneralization — the act or process of overgeneralizing.
overidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
overinterpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
overpressurization — pressure in excess of normal atmospheric pressure, as that caused by an explosion's shock wave or created in an accelerating airplane.
overrepresentation — to give too much representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately high.
overspecialization — excessive specialization, as in a field of study.
ox-tongue partisan — a shafted weapon having a long, wide, tapering blade.
pairs championship — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
pan american union — a former organization of American republics dedicated to furthering understanding and peace: replaced in 1970 by the secretariat of the Organization of American States.
parallactic motion — the apparent motion of stars due to the earth's orbital motion.
parallel evolution — the independent development of closely corresponding adaptive features in two or more groups of organisms that occupy different but equivalent habitats, as marsupial mammals in Australia and placental mammals on other continents.
parallel reduction — A form of applicative order reduction in which all redexes in an expression are reduced simultaneously. Variants include parallel outermost reduction and lenient reduction. See normal order reduction.
parallel resonance — the resonance that results when circuit elements are connected with their inductance and capacitance in parallel, so that the impedance of the combination rises to a maximum at the resonant frequency
partial evaluation — (compiler, algorithm) (Or "specialisation") An optimisation technique where the compiler evaluates some subexpressions at compile-time. For example, Partial evaluation might change the termination properties of the program if, for example, the expression (x * 0) was reduced to 0 it would terminate even if x (and thus x * 0) did not. It may be necessary to reorder an expression to partially evaluate it, e.g. f x y = (x + y) + 1 g z = f 3 z If we rewrite f: f x y = (x + 1) + y then the expression x+1 becomes a constant for the function g and we can say g z = f 3 z = (3 + 1) + z = 4 + z Partial evaluation of built-in functions applied to constant arguments is known as constant folding. See also full laziness.
passing modulation — a modulation of a temporary nature.
patron of the arts — someone who acts as a patron to or supports charities, organizations, and individuals that work in or concern the arts
pay one's respects — a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in): to differ in some respect.

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