15-letter words containing h, o, k
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shock resistant — not affected by impact
- shock treatment — electroconvulsive therapy
- shock-resistant — strong or resilient enough to sustain minor impacts without damage to the internal mechanism: a shock-resistant watch.
- shockwave flash — flash
- shoot the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- south salt lake — a town in N Utah.
- south yorkshire — a metropolitan county in N England. 603 sq. mi. (1561 sq. km).
- speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
- stock character — a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.
- stocking stitch — stockinette (def 2).
- studhorse poker — stud poker.
- swainson's hawk — a migratory hawk, Buteo swainsoni, of western North America, that winters in southern South America.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
- thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
- the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
- the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
- the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
- the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- the working man — working class people collectively
- the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
- the-sketch-book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
- think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- think little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
- thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
- to pack a punch — If something packs a punch, it has a very powerful effect.
- to tie the knot — If you say that two people tie the knot, you mean that they get married.
- tongue in cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- tongue-in-cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
- walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
- watch the clock — If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- what's cooking? — what's happening?