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

  • diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
  • dyer's rocket — weld2 .
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • go-kart track — a racetrack for go-karts
  • gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
  • greek cypriot — a Cypriot of Greek descent
  • ground attack — an attack using ground forces, as opposed to air or naval forces
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • hack together — (jargon)   To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
  • 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.
  • jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
  • keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
  • 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.
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • 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.
  • macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • megakaryocyte — a large bone-marrow cell having a lobulate nucleus, regarded as the source of blood platelets.
  • microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • 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
  • monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
  • north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
  • 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.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
  • 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)
  • return-cocked — (of a cock bead) situated at an angle or arris.
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