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12-letter words containing k, e, t, o

  • pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
  • pocket money — money for small, current expenses.
  • pocket mouse — any of numerous burrowing rodents, especially of the genus Perognathus, chiefly inhabiting arid regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having fur-lined cheek pouches and a long tail.
  • pocket piece — (in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.
  • pocket-sized — If you describe something as pocket-sized, you approve of it because it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
  • private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
  • receipt book — book containing receipt slips
  • record token — a gift voucher that can be used as payment for records of a specified value
  • ring network — (networking, topology)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
  • robert hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
  • rock lobster — spiny lobster.
  • rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
  • rocket motor — engine of a spacecraft
  • rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
  • rocket range — a firing range for rockets
  • rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
  • rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
  • rockumentary — a documentary about rock music.
  • rohnert park — a city in W California.
  • roller-skate — to glide about by means of roller skates.
  • roman strike — a striking mechanism of c1700, giving the equivalent in tones of Roman numerals, a bell of one pitch striking once for each number I, a bell of another pitch striking once for V, twice for X.
  • rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
  • rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
  • salmon steak — a thick slice of salmon
  • sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • section mark — section (def 16).
  • septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
  • skateboarder — person who rides skateboard
  • skeleton bob — a small sledge for racing over a frozen track, steered by the rider by movements of the head and shoulders
  • skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
  • skeleton key — a key with nearly the whole substance of the bit filed away so that it may open various locks.
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • skeletonizer — any of numerous insect species that reduce leaves to a skeleton
  • sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
  • ski trousers — warm padded trousers used for skiing
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
  • smooth snake — any of several slender nonvenomous colubrid snakes of the European genus Coronella, esp C. austriaca, having very smooth scales and a reddish-brown coloration
  • snake doctor — South Midland and Southern U.S. a dragonfly.
  • sneak out of — leave secretly
  • socket joint — a joint in which the rounded end of one part fits into the cavity of another part
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