| blastoff | (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: shot |
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| boffin | (noun) (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research | - |
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| coffee | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, deep brown, umber |
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| (noun) a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans | Synonyms: java |
| (noun) a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee | Synonyms: coffee bean, coffee berry |
| (noun) any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans | Synonyms: coffee tree |
| coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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| coffeecake | (noun) a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee | Synonyms: coffee cake |
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| coffeehouse | (noun) a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold | Synonyms: cafe, coffee bar, coffee shop |
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| coffeepot | (noun) tall pot in which coffee is brewed | - |
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| coffer | (noun) a chest especially for storing valuables | - |
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| (noun) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome | Synonyms: caisson, lacunar |
| cofferdam | (noun) large watertight chamber used for construction under water | Synonyms: caisson, pneumatic caisson |
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| coffin | (noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: casket |
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| counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
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| counteroffer | (noun) an offer made by someone who has rejected a prior offer | - |
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| cutoff | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, shortcut |
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| (noun) a device that terminates the flow in a pipe | - |
| (noun) a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated | - |
| enfeoffment | (noun) under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service | - |
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| falloff | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, slack, slump |
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| feoff | (noun) a piece of land held under the feudal system | Synonyms: fief |
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| goffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: gauffer |
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| (noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffer, gauffering iron, goffering iron |
| (noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: gopher |
| handoff | (noun) (American football) a play in which one player hands the ball to a teammate | - |
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| kickoff | (noun) (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score | - |
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| (noun) a start given to contestants | Synonyms: send-off, start-off |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| knockoff | (noun) an unauthorized copy or imitation | Synonyms: clone |
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| layoff | (noun) the act of laying off an employee or a work force | - |
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| liftoff | (noun) the initial ascent of a rocket from its launching pad | - |
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| offal | (noun) viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans | - |
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| offbeat | (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: upbeat |
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| offence | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offense, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offense |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offense, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offense, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offense |
| offender | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: wrongdoer |
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| offense | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offensive |
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| (noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offence |
| (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity |
| (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, umbrage |
| (noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offence |
| offensive | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offense |
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| offensiveness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: distastefulness, odiousness |
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| offer | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offering |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offering |
| offerer | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offeror |
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| offering | (noun) the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity | Synonyms: oblation |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) money contributed to a religious organization; item or items contributed to a religious organization for religious purposes | - |
| offeror | (noun) someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offerer |
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| offertory | (noun) the offerings of the congregation at a religious service | - |
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| office | (noun) a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities | - |
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| (noun) the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group | Synonyms: function, part, role |
| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, place, position, post, situation |
| (noun) place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed | Synonyms: business office |
| (noun) professional or clerical workers in an office | Synonyms: office staff |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency |
| (noun) (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power | Synonyms: power |
| officeholder | (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: incumbent |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officer |
| officer | (noun) a member of a police force | Synonyms: police officer |
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| (noun) someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust | Synonyms: officeholder |
| (noun) any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command | Synonyms: military officer |
| (noun) a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel | Synonyms: ship's officer |
| official | (noun) someone who administers the rules of a game or sport | - |
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| (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: functionary |
| officialdom | (noun) people elected or appointed to administer a government | Synonyms: government officials |
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| officialese | (noun) the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure | - |
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| officiant | (noun) a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service | - |
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| officiating | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiation, refereeing, umpirage |
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| officiation | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, refereeing, umpirage |
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| (noun) the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty | - |
| officiousness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, meddlesomeness |
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| offing | (noun) the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area | - |
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| (noun) the near or foreseeable future | - |
| offprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: reprint, separate |
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| offset | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: set-back, setoff |
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| (noun) a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper | Synonyms: offset printing |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: runner, stolon |
| (noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: counterbalance |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| offshoot | (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, outgrowth |
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| offside | (noun) (sport) the mistake of occupying an illegal position on the playing field (in football, soccer, ice hockey, field hockey, etc.) | - |
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| offspring | (noun) any immature animal | Synonyms: young |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
| (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, progeny |
| offstage | (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
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| payoff | (noun) a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing | Synonyms: reward, wages |
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| (noun) the final payment of a debt | Synonyms: final payment |
| (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: bribe |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield |
| playoff | (noun) any final competition to determine a championship | - |
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| proffer | (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proposition, suggestion |
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| putoff | (noun) a pretext for delay or inaction | - |
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| runoff | (noun) a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner | - |
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| (noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overflow, overspill |
| scoff | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoffing |
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| scoffer | (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, mocker |
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| (noun) someone who eats food rapidly and greedily | Synonyms: gorger |
| scoffing | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff |
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| scofflaw | (noun) one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses | - |
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| selloff | (noun) a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade | - |
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| setoff | (noun) structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly | Synonyms: offset, set-back |
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| soffit | (noun) the underside of a part of a building (such as an arch or overhang or beam etc.) | - |
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| standoff | (noun) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand | Synonyms: repulsion |
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| (noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: draw, tie |
| standoffishness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, withdrawnness |
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| takeoff | (noun) a departure; especially of airplanes | - |
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| (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: mockery, parody |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, travesty |
| (noun) the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne | - |
| teeoff | (noun) the act of hitting a golf ball from the teeing ground at the start of each hole | - |
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| toff | (noun) informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person | Synonyms: nob |
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| toffee | (noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets | Synonyms: brittle, toffy |
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| toffy | (noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets | Synonyms: brittle, toffee |
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| tradeoff | (noun) an exchange that occurs as a compromise | Synonyms: trade-off |
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| turnoff | (noun) a side road where you can turn off | - |
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| (noun) something causing antagonism or loss of interest | Synonyms: negative stimulation |