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13-letter words containing c, o, r, k, s

  • grossglockner — a mountain in S Austria: highest peak in the Hohe Tauern range. 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
  • hickory hills — a town in NE Illinois.
  • horror-struck — stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
  • house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
  • how's tricks? — how are you?
  • hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • nordic skiing — types of skiing in which the heel of the boot is not fixed to the ski, especially cross-country skiing and ski-jumping
  • novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
  • office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
  • offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
  • racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • 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.
  • rocking stone — any fairly large rock so situated on its base that slight forces can cause it to move or sway.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • scissors jack — a horizontal screw that raises or lowers a hinged, diamond-shaped frame.
  • scissors kick — a propelling motion of the legs in which they move somewhat like the blades of a pair of scissors, used in the sidestroke.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
  • seiko rc-4000 — A wristwatch with an EIA-232 interface. A clip fitted round the watch and made electrical contact. This clip had a socket for a stereo style jack lead the other end of which was a 25-way D-type connector. The lead allowed you to enter phone numbers etc. into the watch without having to play with tiny buttons. It also meant if the battery on your watch ran out you could restore the data without having to type it all in again. It was around the era of the 8-bit home computers like the Spectrum, BBC Microcomputer, Apple II, C64 - the 1980s.
  • 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.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
  • skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
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