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15-letter words containing k, g, o

  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • orthokeratology — a technique for correcting refractive errors in vision by changing the shape of the cornea with the temporary use of progressively flatter hard contact lenses.
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
  • package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
  • pickling onions — small onions suitable for pickling
  • programme-maker — someone who creates programmes for television and radio
  • rake's progress — a series of paintings and engravings by William Hogarth.
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • regulatory risk — a risk to which private companies are subject, arising from the possibility of legislation or regulations that will affect business being adopted by a government
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • ringtail monkey — a Central and South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having a prehensile tail and hair on the head resembling a cowl.
  • rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
  • sargon of akkad — 24th to 23rd century bc, semilegendary Mesopotamian ruler whose empire extended from the Gulf to the Mediterranean
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • smoker's tongue — Pathology. leukoplakia in the mouth caused by irritation due to smoking.
  • smoking-concert — a concert where smoking is allowed.
  • smoking-related — (of a disease, illness, etc) caused by smoking tobacco, etc
  • social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
  • social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • sounding rocket — a rocket equipped with instruments for making meteorological observations in the upper atmosphere.
  • south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
  • spark generator — an alternating-current power source with a condenser discharging across a spark gap.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
  • stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
  • stocking stitch — stockinette (def 2).
  • stoke newington — former metropolitan borough of London, now part of Hackney
  • stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • to go for broke — If you go for broke, you take the most extreme or risky of the possible courses of action in order to try and achieve success.
  • to my knowledge — as far as I am aware
  • tongue in cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • tongue-in-cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
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