13-letter words containing k, e, r, o
- overhand knot — a simple knot of various uses that slips easily.
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- overrun brake — a brake fitted to a trailer or other towed vehicle that prevents the towed vehicle travelling faster than the towing vehicle when slowing down or descending an incline
- overtalkative — characterized by a tendency to talk excessively
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
- petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
- petropavlovsk — a city in N Kazakhstan on the Ishim River. Pop: 190 000 (2005 est)
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
- piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- 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.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- pork-barreler — a politician, especially a senator or member of Congress who is party to or benefits from a pork barrel.
- porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
- powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- power workers — the people who work in the power industry
- pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
- prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
- propeller key — feature key
- queer-looking — odd or strange in appearance
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- relief worker — a person who works for a charity providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- 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
- return stroke — the main discharge in a lightning stroke
- return-cocked — (of a cock bead) situated at an angle or arris.
- reworked wool — used wool which is reprocessed for additional use.
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.