French to English Dictionary (Dictionnaire Français-Anglais)

Blow-over

An incident, storm, or period of trouble that passes quickly and without causing serious or permanent damage.

Church-officer

A person who holds an office or performs administrative or ministerial duties in a church.

Hindrance

A thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or someone.

Idleness

The state of spending time inactive or without work; laziness or lack of occupation.

Naturalistic observation

A research method in which behavior is observed in its natural setting without experimental manipulation or intervention by the researcher.

Noop

An instruction or operation that does nothing effectively.

Oasis

A fertile or green spot in a desert, made so by the presence of water.

Obliqueness

The state or quality of being neither parallel nor at a right angle to a specified or implied line; slanting or inclination.

Obscure

Not discovered or known about; uncertain.

Obsolescence

The state of being obsolete or no longer produced or used, or no longer useful.

Occidental

Relating to the countries of the West, especially Europe and the Americas.

Opacity

The quality of being opaque; the inability of light to pass through something.