11-letter words containing k, e, t, o, c
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- little rock — state in S central United States. 53,103 sq. mi. (137,537 sq. km). Capital: Little Rock. Abbreviation: AR (for use with zip code), Ark.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- metchnikoff — Élie [French ey-lee] /French eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov) 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
- model stock — Model stock is the maintenance of adequate levels of stock of an item so that an adequate supply is always available for selling.
- netherstock — a stocking
- nose tackle — nose guard
- not cricket — If you say that someone's behaviour is not cricket, you mean that they have not behaved fairly.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- open ticket — a return ticket which does not specify a date for travel
- optokinetic — relating to a reflex whereby the eye follows a moving object
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- overstocked — containing too many fish
- packet boat — a boat that travels a regular route, as along a coast or on a river, carrying passengers, freight, and mail
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
- picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
- plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
- pocket book — a book small enough to be carried in one's pocket
- pocket door — a door, usually one of a communicating pair, that slides into and out of a recess in a doorway wall.
- pocket park — a very small park or outdoor area for public leisure, especially an urban plaza or courtyard with benches and fountains.
- pocket veto — the action of the President in retaining unsigned a bill passed by Congress within the last ten days of a session and thus causing it to die
- pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
- pocket-veto — to veto (a bill) by exercising a pocket veto.
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
- pocketphone — a mobile phone
- poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
- pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- potato cake — any of various kinds of small savoury cakes made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
- pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
- retrorocket — a small, auxiliary rocket engine, forming a part of a larger rocket vehicle and having its exhaust nozzle pointed toward the direction of flight, for decelerating the larger rocket, separating one stage from another, etc.
- rock beauty — a gold and black butterflyfish, Holocanthus tricolor, ranging from the West Indies to Brazil.
- rock steady — the style of vocalized Jamaican popular music that succeeded ska and preceded reggae in the 1960s, influenced by American soul music and having a more upbeat tempo with emphasis on electric bass and guitar rather than on horns.
- rocket bomb — an aerial bomb equipped with a rocket for added velocity after being dropped from an aircraft.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rocket sled — a sled propelled along a long track by rocket engines, for testing the effects of high rates of acceleration and deceleration.
- rocketsonde — a telemeter for gathering data on the atmosphere at very high altitudes, carried aloft by rocket and returned to earth by parachute.
- rope socket — either of a pair of matching fittings fastened to the ends of lengths of wire rope to join them together.
- rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
- shuttlecock — Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown.