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

  • on the knocker — promptly; at once
  • one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • oracle toolkit — Adaptable User Interface
  • orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
  • out of the ark — very old; out of date
  • oyster cracker — a small, round, usually salted cracker, served with oysters, soup, etc.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • paperback book — a book with covers made of flexible card, sold relatively cheaply
  • parking sensor — A parking sensor is a device on a vehicle which detects obstacles and alerts the driver if the vehicle comes too close to them when being parked.
  • passion killer — something that is sexually unattractive or inhibiting
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • penalty stroke — a stroke added to a score for a rule infraction.
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • play for keeps — to do something seriously and without showing any mercy
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
  • pop one's cork — the outer bark of an oak, Quercus suber, of Mediterranean countries, used for making stoppers for bottles, floats, etc.
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • practical joke — a playful trick, often involving some physical agent or means, in which the victim is placed in an embarrassing or disadvantageous position.
  • profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
  • promenade deck — an upper deck or part of a deck on a passenger ship where passengers can stroll, often covered with a light shade deck.
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • railway worker — railroad employee
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • rathke's pouch — an invagination of stomodeal ectoderm developing into the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • record-breaker — A record-breaker is someone or something that beats the previous best result in a sport or other activity.
  • 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.
  • recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
  • red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • reference book — a book containing useful facts or specially organized information, as an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, yearbook, etc.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
  • roanoke island — an island off the NE coast of North Carolina, S of Albemarle Sound: site of Raleigh's unsuccessful colonizing attempts 1585, 1587.
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • rocket science — rocketry.
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