14-letter words containing k, e, t, o
- chocolate milk — milk flavored with chocolate syrup or powdered chocolate.
- clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
- clothes basket — a basket for storing and transporting clothes that need washing, or have been washed
- coast live oak — California live oak.
- cocktail dress — A cocktail dress is a dress that is suitable for formal social occasions.
- cocktail sauce — any of various sauces served with a seafood cocktail, typically one consisting of ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, and seasonings.
- cocktail table — a low table as for serving refreshments, esp. one in a living room
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- container dock — a dock designed for cargo containers
- control rocket — a small rocket engine used to make corrections in the flight path of spacecraft or missiles.
- cook the books — to make fraudulent alterations to business or other accounts
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- corporate park — office park.
- counter-attack — If you counter-attack, you attack someone who has attacked you.
- counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
- counterattacks — Plural form of counterattack; Alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
- counterchecked — Simple past tense and past participle of countercheck.
- countersinking — Present participle of countersink.
- county cricket — (in Britain) cricket played between county teams competing in the county cricket championship
- covered market — an indoor market
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- dark chocolate — Dark chocolate is dark brown chocolate that has a stronger and less sweet taste than milk chocolate.
- dark continent — Africa, especially before the late 19th cent. when little was known of it
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- dimethylketone — acetone.
- disembarkation — to go ashore from a ship.
- dnepropetrovsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- dread to think — If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant.
- duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
- electric shock — electric current entering the body
- electrokinesis — (physics) The transport of particles or fluid by means of an electric field acting on a fluid which has a net mobile charge.
- electrokinetic — of or relating to the motion of charged particles and its effects
- electronic ink — a material consisting of microscopic cells that can be turned from white to black and vice versa with the application of a small electric charge allowing electronically stored text to appear on a paper-like substance
- electroshocked — Simple past tense and past participle of electroshock.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- folk etymology — a modification of a linguistic form according either to a falsely assumed etymology, as Welsh rarebit from Welsh rabbit, or to a historically irrelevant analogy, as bridegroom from bridegome.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- forward market — future commodities trading
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
- get/go to work — If you get to work, go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
- go in the tank — to lose or fail badly or on purpose
- go to the pack — to fall into a lower state or condition
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- have a stomack — to be pregnant