15-letter words containing our
- fourth official — In football, the fourth official is an official who assists the referee and assistant referees from the side of the pitch.
- fourth position — a position in which the feet are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
- funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
- general journal — A general journal is a journal recording all of the transactions of a business.
- graph colouring — (application) A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
- guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
- hedge your bets — play it safe, lessen a risk
- horsepower-hour — a foot-pound-second unit of energy or work, equal to the work done by a mechanism with a power output of one horsepower over a period of one hour.
- hour after hour — continuously for many hours
- human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
- ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
- in honour bound — under a moral obligation
- in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
- journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
- justice's court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- kissing gourami — a whitish labyrinth fish, Helostoma temmincki, found in southeastern Asia, noted for the habit of pressing its fleshy, protrusible lips against those of another: often kept in aquariums.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
- let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
- licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
- little missouri — a river in the NW United States, rising in NE Wyoming and flowing NE into the Missouri through N Dakota. 560 miles (900 km) long.
- lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
- magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
- man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
- medical tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
- mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
- municipal court — a court whose jurisdiction is confined to a city or municipality, with criminal jurisdiction usually corresponding to that of a police court and civil jurisdiction over small causes.
- neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- notour bankrupt — a bankrupt who has failed to discharge his or her debts within the days of grace allowed by the court
- obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
- on one's honour — on the pledge of one's word or good name
- one's last hour — the time of one's death
- open your mouth — If you say that someone does not open their mouth, you are emphasizing that they never say anything at all.
- out on your ear — If someone says that you will be out on your ear, they mean that you will be forced to leave a job, an organization or a place suddenly.
- outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
- pastel-coloured — pale-coloured; in a shade such as pink or pale blue
- petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- play favourites — to display favouritism