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14-letter words containing k, i, o

  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
  • load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
  • locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • make a hole in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
  • mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
  • megakaryocytic — Of, pertaining to, or containing megakaryocytes.
  • mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
  • metallokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control metals.
  • micromarketing — the marketing of products or services designed to meet the needs of a very small section of the market
  • mid wicket off — mid off.
  • middle kingdom — Also called Middle Empire. the period in the history of ancient Egypt, c2000–1785 b.c., comprising the 11th to 14th dynasties. Compare New Kingdom, Old Kingdom.
  • migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • milk chocolate — chocolate that has been mixed with milk.
  • milking parlor — a room in or attached to a barn on a modern dairy farm maintained exclusively for the mechanical milking of cows.
  • miracle worker — If you describe someone as a miracle worker, you mean that they have achieved or are able to achieve success in something that other people have found very difficult.
  • mockumentaries — Plural form of mockumentary.
  • model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing)   To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
  • mormon cricket — a flightless, long-horned grasshopper, Anabrus simplex, of the western U.S., that is destructive to range grasses and cultivated crops.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • neo-kantianism — Kantianism as modified by various philosophers.
  • neo-lamarckism — Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.
  • neuromarketing — the process of researching the brain patterns of consumers to reveal their responses to particular advertisements and products before developing new advertising campaigns and branding techniques
  • new kensington — a city in W Pennsylvania.
  • nice/good work — You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.
  • nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
  • nodding donkey — (in the oil industry) a type of reciprocating pump used to extract oil from an inland well
  • norfolk island — an island in the S Pacific between New Caledonia and New Zealand: a territory of Australia. 13 sq. mi. (34 sq. km).
  • novoshakhtinsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in Europe, NE of the Sea of Azov.
  • oblique stroke — (character)   "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages.
  • okavango basin — a river in SW central Africa, rising in central Angola and flowing southeast, then east as part of the border between Angola and Namibia, then southeast across the Caprivi Strip into Botswana to form a great marsh known as the Okavango Basin, Delta or Swamp. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles)
  • omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
  • one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • oracle toolkit — Adaptable User Interface
  • ordinary stock — British. common stock.
  • orkney islands — group of islands north of Scotland, constituting an administrative division of Scotland: 377 sq mi (976 sq km); pop. 20,000
  • ozone sickness — a condition characterized by chest pain, itchy eyes, and drowsiness, caused by exposure to ozone, as experienced in the atmospheres of smog and high-altitude airplanes.
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