11-letter words containing k, e, t, o
- on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
- on the take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- open market — an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate.
- 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.
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
- overblanket — a blanket that is placed on a bed on top of the other bedding
- 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 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
- 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.
- petrol tank — The petrol tank in a motor vehicle is the container for petrol.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- 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
- poke bonnet — a bonnet with a projecting front brim
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
- 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
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- 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
- 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.
- provokement — the act or instance of provoking
- 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.
- realpolitik — political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals.
- 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.