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11-letter words containing k, e, t, o, s

  • nose tackle — nose guard
  • objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
  • oktoberfest — a traditional festival held each October in Munich, Germany.
  • 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.
  • other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
  • outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
  • outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
  • overstocked — containing too many fish
  • oyster fork — a small, three-pronged fork, used especially in eating seafood.
  • oyster pink — a delicate pinkish-white colour, sometimes with a greyish tinge
  • oyster rake — a rake with a long handle and curved teeth for gathering in oysters from shallow waters
  • packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
  • park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
  • penny stock — common stock, usually highly speculative, selling for less than a dollar a share.
  • perestroika — Russian. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • pocket-size — small enough to fit conveniently into one's pocket.
  • pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • 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 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.
  • rollerskate — a form of skate with four wheels or rollers instead of a runner, for use on a sidewalk or other surface offering traction.
  • rope socket — either of a pair of matching fittings fastened to the ends of lengths of wire rope to join them together.
  • round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
  • rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
  • safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
  • safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
  • sato eisaku — 1901–75, Japanese statesman: prime minister (1964–72). During his term of office Japan became a major economic power. He shared the Nobel peace prize (1974) for opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
  • 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.
  • single knot — overhand knot.
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • skeletonize — to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
  • sketch book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
  • sketch show — a show, such as a TV show or public performance, consisting of a variety of short comedy scenes
  • skittle out — to dismiss (batsmen) quickly
  • skyrocketed — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
  • slit pocket — a pocket on the underside of a garment, reached through a vertical opening
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • smoke point — heat at which oil gives off smoke
  • smoke-eater — a firefighter.
  • smoked meat — animal flesh cooked by smoking
  • snickometer — a device, which uses sound waves recorded by the stump microphone, employed by TV commentators to determine whether or not a batsman has made contact with the ball
  • so to speak — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • sock puppet — a hand puppet made out of a sock.
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