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13-letter words containing c, h, o, k

  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • pocket gopher — any of numerous burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, of western and southern North America and Central America, having large, external, fur-lined cheek pouches.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • rock hounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks, fossils, or minerals.
  • rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
  • rocking chair — a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
  • rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
  • rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
  • roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
  • round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
  • scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • sea hollyhock — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • shell-shocked — battle fatigue.
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • shock tactics — shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • sickle-hocked — noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • think much of — to have a high opinion of
  • thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
  • tracking shot — dolly shot.
  • unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
  • upper chinook — a Chinookan language of the Columbia River valley from the Deschutes River to the estuary.
  • volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
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