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16-letter words containing c, o, k, e, r

  • oak leaf cluster — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a small bronze twig bearing four oak leaves and three acorns, worn on the ribbon of another decoration for valor, wounds, or distinguished service to signify a second award of the same medal.
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • ocellated turkey — a wild turkey, Agriocharis ocellata, of Yucatán, Belize, and Guatemala, typically having green, blue, reddish-brown, and yellowish-brown plumage of a metallic luster and eyelike spots on the tail.
  • off one's rocker — Also called runner. one of the curved pieces on which a cradle or a rocking chair rocks.
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • pocket secretary — a long, narrow walletlike case, usually of leather and containing pockets for credit and business cards, paper money, etc., and sometimes a notepad and pencil.
  • posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
  • poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
  • preference stock — preferred stock.
  • proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
  • rack one's brain — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  • rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
  • restricted stock — unregistered stock, as that issued privately as compensation to corporate executives subject to special conditions.
  • rock creek butte — a mountain in NE Oregon: highest peak in the Blue Mountains. 9106 feet (2777 meters).
  • rocket scientist — a specialist in rocketry.
  • rocket-propelled — using rocket power as the chief motive force.
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
  • sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
  • seneca snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
  • silk-cotton tree — any of several spiny trees belonging to the genus Ceiba, of the bombax family, having palmately compound leaves and seeds surrounded by silk cotton, especially C. pentandra, from which kapok is obtained.
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • sole stockholder — the only person who holds shares in a business
  • sour-milk cheese — cottage cheese made from sour milk.
  • spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
  • stock controller — someone employed to monitor and manage goods and stock so that new stock can be ordered as required and the right numbers and quantities made available all the time
  • stockbroker belt — The stockbroker belt is an area outside a city, especially London, where rich people who travel to work in the city live.
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • ticket collector — transport worker who checks tickets
  • to break the ice — If you break the ice at a party or meeting, or in a new situation, you say or do something to make people feel relaxed and comfortable.
  • to keep a secret — If you say that someone can keep a secret, you mean that they can be trusted not to tell other people a secret that you have told them.
  • to lose track of — If you lose track of someone or something, you no longer know where they are or what is happening.
  • to rock the boat — If you say that someone is rocking the boat, you mean that they are upsetting a calm situation and causing trouble.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • trick-or-treater — a person, typically a child, who goes from door to door in costume on Halloween asking for candy or other treats
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
  • unfranked income — any income from an investment that does not qualify as franked investment income
  • vest-pocket park — pocket park.
  • waterless cooker — a tight-lidded kitchen utensil in which food can be cooked using only a small amount of water or only the juices emitted while cooking.
  • weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.
  • winter crookneck — any of several winter varieties of squash, Cucurbita moschata, having elongated, curved necks.
  • yellow pikeperch — the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
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