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14-letter words containing g, o, r, k, e

  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
  • squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
  • stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
  • stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
  • stick together — be united
  • stinking roger — any of various plants having an unpleasant odor.
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
  • strike through — cross out
  • surgeon's knot — a knot resembling a reef knot, used by surgeons for tying ligatures and the like.
  • to get to work — If you get to work, go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
  • to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
  • trudgen stroke — a swimming stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • working memory — temporary or short-term recall
  • working papers — documents permitting employment
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