13-letter words containing c, l, o, k, e, r
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- roller hockey — a game similar to ice hockey played on roller skates.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- 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.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- 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
- truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
- ullage rocket — a small hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that produces sufficient acceleration to keep propellants in their places when the main rocket is shut off
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- vercelli book — a codex of Old English poems and sermons found in the chapter house at Vercelli.
- 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.
- yellow rocket — any of several yellow-flowered plants of the related genus Barbarea, esp B. vulgaris